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Wanderworte

Wanderworte is the plural of Wanderwort.

Meaning of Wanderwort

Noun

Wanderwort (plural Wanderwörter or Wanderworte or Wanderworts)

  1. A loanword that has spread to many different languages, often through trade or the adoption of foreign cultural practices.
    • Mrs. [Agnes Smith] Lewis has correctly observed that many corrections in the old papyri (things which no doubt the διορωτής corrected) were misinterpreted by the ancients (hence what [Adalbert] Merx calls "Wanderwörte").1914, H[erman] C[harles] Hoskier, “B in St. Luke’s Gospel”, in Codex B and Its Allies: A Study and an Indictment, part I, London: Bernard Quaritch, →OCLC, page 25
    Synonyms:
    wanderword

Synonyms of Wanderworte

Origin of Wanderworte

Borrowed from German Wanderworte.

Questions about Wanderworte

What is Wanderworte the plural of?
Wanderworte is the plural of Wanderwort.

Words near Wanderworte in the dictionary

  1. wanderstars
  2. wanderu
  3. wanderword
  4. wanderwords
  5. wanderwort
  6. Wanderworte
  7. wanderworts
  8. Wanderwörter
  9. wandery
  10. wanderyear
  11. wanderyears

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Wanderworte (page history and authors); Wanderwort (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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