barbarism

English

Noun

barbarism (countable and uncountable; plural barbarisms)

1. A barbaric act.

   These barbarisms can not be allowed to continue, they must be crushed or civilization will collapse.

2. The condition of existing barbarically.
   • 1879, William Tecumseh Sherman, Address to the Michigan Military Academy

     War is at best barbarism...It's glory is all moonshine.

3. An error in language use within a single word, such as a mispronunciation.
   • 2002, Hyman, Bad Grammar in Context, New England Classical Journal, 29, p. 94-101

     In the jargon of the ancient grammarian, penacilin would be a barbarism.

Translations

barbaric act

German: Barbarei (de) f. Lithuanian: barbarizmas (lt) m. Norwegian: barbari (no) n.

Romanian: barbarism (ro) n. Russian: варварство (ru) (várvarstvo) n.

condition of existing barbarically

German: Barbarei (de) f.

Russian: варварство (ru) (várvarstvo) n.

error in language use

Bulgarian: варваризъм (bg) m. French: barbarisme (fr) m. Latvian: barbarisms (lv) m. Lithuanian: barbarizmas (lt) m.

Romanian: barbarism (ro) n. Russian: варваризм (ru) (varvarízm) m. Spanish: barbarismo (es) m. Ukrainian: варваризм (uk) m.