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idiomatology

noun

Etymology

From idiomatic + -ology. Contemporary use is traced to George W. Grace in the unpublished 1977 paper "Language: An Ethnolinguistic Essay". However, the term had been coined at least twice previously in the same sense.

Definitions

  1. The study of idioms and idiomatic language

    • Mr. Alan Gardiner's Home Thoughts on Language emboldens one to ask whether there is not room for a science of Idiomatology* as a sister to Semantics.
    • His aim is language characterization as to its system, a kind of idiomatology.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for idiomatology. 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