allogenism
allogenism · allogenisms
A pseudo-loan, or sometimes specifically a lexical construction made using elements…A pseudo-loan, or sometimes specifically a lexical construction (term or phrase) made using elements from another language, but which does not exist in that language.
Meaning
1 senses(rare)A pseudo-loan, or sometimes specifically a lexical construction (term or phrase) made using elements from another language, but which does not exist in that language.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
allo- + gen- + -ismallo- + gen- + -ism
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Forms
plural: allogenisms| Singular | allogenism |
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Word family
1 related wordsRelatedalienism
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.