xénisme
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ξενισμός (xenismós, “strangeness, novelty”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
xénisme m (plural xénismes)
- (linguistics) foreignism, a foreign word used in a language but is not yet a loanword for it stands out as foreign
Descendants edit
- → Catalan: xenisme
- → English: xenism
- → German: Xenismus
- → Romanian: xenism
- → Russian: ксени́зм (ksenízm)
Further reading edit
- “xénisme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.