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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βαρβᾰρισμός (barbarismós), equivalent to barbarus + -ismus, originally referring to a feature of non-native, 'barbarian' speech. First attested in the Rhetorica ad Herennium.
Pronunciation
Noun
barbarismus m (genitive barbarismī); second declension
- (grammar, rhetoric) a barbarism (a widespread violation of standard Latin morphophonology lacking written authority)
- Synonym: (verbum) dissonāns
- Hypernym: vitium (sermōnis)
- Coordinate terms: metaplasmus, soloecismus, barbarolexis, cacosyntheton
Declension
Second-declension noun.
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