Etymology

Ollendorffian

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Today it means: Of or pertaining to Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff, a German grammarian and language educator, whose method of learning foreign languages came into vogue from the 1840s. Full definition →

First used 19th c.
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From Ollendorff + -ian.

First known use, by meaning

  • from 19th c. Of or pertaining to Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff, a German grammarian and language educator, whose method of learning foreign languages came into vogue from the 1840s.

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