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Originally Posted by j4mes_bond25  Is there a name for foreign words that make their way into common usage in the English language? |
There's are two rather boring and not terribly satisfactory expressions: a
borrowing or
loan-word. There's a more satisfying word for a neologism coined from native words on the analogy of a foreign word - such as 'almighty' (the Latinate analogue being 'omnipotent'). I know where to find it, and will report back.
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Originally Posted by j4mes_bond25 The word sesquipedalian means a word with many syllables - and the word itself is a sesquipedalian. Is there a name for this phenomenon? |
The word "sesquipedalian" is an adjective, and refers to the
sesquipes (a latin foot -
Foot (prosody) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - that is by definition a foot and a half long). A poet could use a
sesquipes in order to fit extra syllables into a line.
The word "sesquipedalian' is sesquipedalian. The word is self-referential.
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