English Explanatory Dictionary

semi-learned borrowing

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A word or other linguistic form borrowed from a classical language into a later one, but partly reshaped based on later sound changes or by analogy with inherited words in the language. These words occur, for example, in the Romance and the Indo-Aryan languages.

Word forms

semi-learned borrowing semi-learned borrowings

Synonyms

semi-learned loanword semi-learned loan

Related words

Semi-learned borrowings by language
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