acyrology

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌæsɪˈɹɒləd͡ʒi/

Noun

acyrology (uncountable)

1. (chiefly Early Modern, now rare) The incorrect use of language.
   • 2016, Joseph Farrell, “Ancient Commentaries on Theocritus’ Idylls and Virgil’s Eclogues”, in Christina S. Kraus, Christopher Stray, editors, Classical Commentaries: Explorations in a Scholarly Genre, →ISBN, page 402:

     Ancient commentators found the phrase distinctive, as well, but in a peculiar way: one of them labelled [one phrase] an instance of catachresis, a type of solecism. Similarly, Servius calls [another] an instance of acyrology, also a type of solecism.

Translations

incorrect use of language

• Italian: acirologia (it) f

See also

• acyrologia