Etymology

idiomatology

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Today it means: The study of idioms and idiomatic language Full definition →

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From idiomatic + -ology. Contemporary use is traced to George W. Grace in the unpublished 1977 paper "Language: An Ethnolinguistic Essay". However, the term had been coined at least twice previously in the same sense.

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