barbarism

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A barbaric act.

   “These barbarisms can not be allowed to continue; they must be crushed or civilization will collapse.”

2. isim The condition of existing barbarically.

   “Like dancing, it is a remnant of ancient barbarism—fit for the days of the Chaldeans or the Babylonians, when people were only amused through their eyes—the sole entertainment of which savage nations are susceptible.”

3. isim A word hybridizing Ancient Greek and Latin or other heterogeneous roots.
4. isim An error in language use within a single word, such as a mispronunciation.

   “In the jargon of the ancient grammarian, penacilin would be a barbarism.”