atavisme

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.təˈβiz.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.təˈviz.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.taˈviz.me]

Noun

atavisme m (plural atavismes)

1. atavism

Related terms

• atàvic

Further reading

• “atavisme” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “atavisme”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “atavisme” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “atavisme” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Latin atavus (“ancestor”) + -isme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ta.vism/, /a.ta.vizm/

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Noun

atavisme m (plural atavismes)

1. atavism (reappearance of an ancestral characteristic)

Further reading

• “atavisme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Etymology

Affixed *atavus +‎ -isme, borrowed from Dutch atavisme, from French atavisme, from Latin atavus (“ancestor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ataˈvɪsmə]
• Hyphenation: ata‧vis‧mê

Noun

atavismê (first-person possessive atavismeku, second-person possessive atavismemu, third-person possessive atavismenya)

1. atavism.

Further reading

• “atavisme” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

atavisme m (definite singular atavismen, indefinite plural atavismer, definite plural atavismene)

1. atavism

Further reading

• “atavisme” in The Bokmål Dictionary.