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formal information > etymological information > loanword > inkhorn term

Preferred term

inkhorn term  

Type

  • Microstructure feature

  • owl:NamedIndividual

Broader concept

Description

  • a hard word usually coined from foreign roots such as Latin or Greek, and thought to be unnecessary or overly pretentious, for example, animadversion for ‘criticism’.

In other languages

  • kultismo

    Basque

  • cultisme superflu

    Catalan

  • overflødigt ord

    Danish

  • raamatusõna

    Estonian

  • raamatulik sõna
  • inkhorn

    Italian

  • tarptautinis žodis

    Lithuanian

  • pretenzingas žodis
  • cultismo superfluo

    Spanish

URI

http://w3id.org/meta-share/lexmeta/inkhornTerm

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