Learnedism

Quick meaning: Learnedism is a noun meaning (especially linguistics of Greek) A word acquired through formal education rather than through childhood language acquisition.

Meaning

(especially linguistics of Greek) A word acquired through formal education rather than through childhood language acquisition.

Example Sentences

Furthermore, περ is productive in the Italiot texts, presumably as a learnedism rather than a popular survival.

Katharevousa τὸ πλοῖον and the demotic learnedism τὸ πλοῖο mean 'ship' in general. Demotic πλοῖο is stylistically more elevated than its synonym τὸ καράβι.

I also hear clearly his adoption of a perspective indexed by his use of anthropological terms (for example, he repeatedly uses the word boribot, “context,” a true learnedism, in his current conversations[…]

Word Forms

• learnedisms

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