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pseudoarchaism

noun

Etymology

From pseudo- + archaism.

  1. derived from *h₂ergʰ-✻
  2. derived from ἀρχαϊσμός
  3. borrowed from archaismus
  4. prefixed as pseudoarchaism — “pseudo + archaism”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being pseudo-archaic.

  2. A false (typically invented) archaism.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pseudoarchaism. 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