Etymology

xenism

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Today it means: A word used in utterances of a language but generally marked as foreign. Full definition →

French xénisme ← Ancient Greek ξενισμός
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromξενισμός“strangeness, novelty”
  2. French · borrowed fromxénisme
  3. English todayxenism

Borrowed from French xénisme, from Ancient Greek ξενισμός (xenismós, “strangeness, novelty”).

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