-cism
English
editEtymology
editExtracted from iotacism.
Suffix
edit-cism
- Added to names of primarily Greek letters to indicate a phonetic phenomenon relating to the corresponding phoneme:
- Excessive usage of the phoneme.
- A sound change towards the phoneme.
- The retention of a phoneme when related varieties lose it.
- A speech disorder marked by either excessive or defective use of the phoneme.