Meaning of learnedism | Babel Free

Definitions

A word acquired through formal education rather than through childhood language acquisition.

especially

Examples

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

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

“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[…]”

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