idioticon

Examples of idioticon in a sentence

• "Wische," says the Westerwald Idioticon, "expresses a quick movement connected with a whizzing or swishing sound."1865, Hensleigh Wedgwood, “To Wipe”, in A Dictionary of English Etymology, volume III, part II, London: N[icholas] Trübner & Co., →OCLC...
• The ideal [Taco H.] de Beer had in mind, was an "idioticon", which he probably visualized as a dictionary comprising all the Netherlandic dialects.1954, C[oenraad] B[ernardus] van Haeringen, “Dialectology”, in Netherlandic Language Research: Men and Works in the Study of Dutch, Leiden...
• [T]he Flemings, anxious that the dictionary would turn out to be too 'Hollandic', started collecting their own regional words for a general Flemish idioticon.1992, Anton M. Hagen, “Dutch Dialectology: The National and International Perspective”, in Jan Noordegraaf, Kees Versteegh, Konrad Koerner...
• While there was a solid tradition of idioticons by that time, dialect lexicography on the other hand only developed into a more scholarly activity by the end of the century [...].2019, Gjisbert Rutten, “The Folklorisation of Non-standard Language”, in Language Planning as Nation Building: Ideology, Policy and...

Synonyms of idioticon

• dictionary

Forms of idioticon

Origin of idioticon

PIE word *swé Borrowed from German Idiotikon, Idioticon (archaic), from Late Latin idioticon (chiefly in the titles of works), from Ancient Greek ἰδιωτικόν (idiōtikón), the neuter singular of ἰδιωτικός (idiōtikós, “pertaining to or for a person not engaged in public affairs; private; amateurish”), from ῐ̓δῐώτης (ĭdĭṓtēs, “person not engaged in public affairs; amateur, layperson; ignorant person, idiot”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). ῐ̓δῐώτης is derived from ῐ̓́δῐος (ĭ́dĭos, “private (as opposed to public); distinct, separate; peculiar, specific”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swé (“self (reflexive pronoun)”) + -ώτης (-ṓtēs, suffix forming nouns referring to types of persons). The English word is cognate with Dutch idioticon. The plural form idiotica is derived from German Idiotika, Latin idiotica, and Ancient Greek ἰδιωτῐκᾰ́ (idiōtĭkắ).

Related words

• idiolect
• idiolectal
• idiolectally
• idiolectic
• idiolectical

Questions about idioticon

What does idioticon mean?

Idioticon means a dictionary of a specific dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country.

How do you use idioticon in a sentence?

"Wische," says the Westerwald Idioticon, "expresses a quick movement connected with a whizzing or swishing sound."

What part of speech is idioticon?

Idioticon is a noun.

How do you pronounce idioticon?

Idioticon is pronounced /ˌɪdɪˈəʊtɪk(ə)n/ (UK).

What is the plural of idioticon?

The plural of idioticon is idiotica.