colloquiality

noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin loquor Latin colloquor Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin colloquiumder. Middle English colloquies English colloquy Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English colloquial Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English colloquiality From colloquial + -ity.

  1. derived from -itebor
  2. derived from -ālisbor
  3. derived from -albor

Definitions

  1. The state or condition of being colloquial

    The state or condition of being colloquial; colloquialness.

  2. A colloquial term, utterance, etc.

    A colloquial term, utterance, etc.; a colloquialism.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for colloquiality. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA