Germanism

English

Etymology

German +‎ -ism

Noun

Germanism (countable and uncountable, plural Germanisms)

1. (countable) A word or idiom of the German language (that has been borrowed by another language).
2. (usually uncountable) The culture and customs of the Germanic people (or tribes).

Synonyms

• Teutonism

Coordinate terms

• (foreignisms) foreignism; Akkadianism / Akkadism, Americanism, Amharism, Anglicism, Arabism, Aramaism, Armenism, Australianism, Batavism, Belorussianism, Bengalism, Briticism, Bulgarism, Catalanism, Church Slavicism / Church Slavonicism / Slavonicism, Croatism, Czechism / Bohemianism, Gallicism / Frenchism, Germanism / Teutonism, Grecism / Hellenism, Hebraism, Hispanism / Hispanicism / Castilianism, Hungarianism / Magyarism, Indianism, Iranianism, Irishism, Italianism / Italicism, Japanism, Kazakhism, Latinism, Macedonianism, Mandaism, Moravianism, New Zealandism, Persianism, Polonism, Portuguesism, Russianism, Scotticism, Serbism, Serbo-Croatism, Sinicism, Slavism, Slovenism / Pannonianism, Sumerianism / Sumerism, Syriacism, Turkism, Ukrainism / Ukrainianism, Uzbekism, Yiddishism

Translations

a word or idiom of the German language

• Catalan: germanisme m
• Czech: germanismus (cs) m
• Danish: fortyskning c, germanisme (da) c
• Dutch: germanisme (nl) m
• Finnish: saksalaisuus, germanismi
• French: germanisme (fr) m
• Galician: xermanismo m
• Georgian: გერმანიზმი (germanizmi)
• German: Germanismus (de) m
• Hungarian: germanizmus (hu)
• Italian: germanismo (it) m, germanesimo m
• Polish: germanizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: germanismo m
• Romanian: germanism (ro) m
• Russian: германи́зм (ru) m (germanízm)
• Spanish: germanismo
• Swedish: germanism (sv) c, tyskeri (sv) n

culture, and customs of Germanic peoples — see also Teutonism

• Finnish: saksalaisuus, germanismi
• Portuguese: germanismo m