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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ξενισμός (xenismós, “strangeness, novelty”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡze.nism/ ~ /ɡze.nizm/
Noun
xénisme m (plural xénismes)
- (linguistics) foreignism, a foreign word used in a language but is not yet a loanword for it stands out as foreign
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