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federalese

noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰós Proto-Italic *feiðos Latin foedusder. French fédéralder. English federal Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Late Latin -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor. Middle English -eys English -ese English federalese From federal + -ese.

  1. derived from -eys English -ese English federalese From federal + -ese
  2. derived from -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor
  3. derived from federal Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor
  4. derived from fédéralder
  5. derived from *bʰeydʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰós Proto-Italic *feiðos Latin foedusder✻

Definitions

  1. The bureaucratic jargon of federal government.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for federalese. 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