Etymology

psittacism

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Today it means: Mechanical, repetitive words used without understanding or consideration. Full definition →

Latin psittacus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frompsittacus“parrot”
  2. English todaypsittacism

From Latin psittacus (“parrot”) + -ism. By surface analysis, psittac- + -ism.

Words from the same roots

Latinpsittacus all →

psittacosispsittac-

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