acirologia

Italian

Etymology

From Medieval Latin acyrologiam.

Noun

acirologia f (plural acirologie)

  1. (grammar) acyrology

Anagrams

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin acyrologia, from Ancient Greek ἀκυρολογία (akurología). First attested in c. 16th century.[1]

Noun

acirologia f (plural acirologias)

  1. (rhetoric) acyrologia (improper use of a word)

References
  1. José Pedro Machado (1995), “Acirologia”, in Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa: com a mais antiga documentação escrita e conhecida de muitos dos vocábulos estudados (in Portuguese), volume I, 7 edition, Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, →ISBN, page 75
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