Bohemianism

See also: bohemianism

English

Alternative forms

• bohemianism

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws

Proto-Celtic *bāusder.

Latin Boiī

Proto-Indo-European *ḱey-

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos

Proto-Indo-European *teḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-éyti

Proto-Indo-European *tḱéytibf.

Proto-Indo-European *tḱey-

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos

Proto-Germanic *haimazbor.

Late Latin Boiohaemumlbor.

Middle French Bohême

French Bohêmebor.

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -iader.

English -ia

English Bohemia

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Latin -ius

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Italic *-nosder.

Proto-Italic *-ānos

Latin -ānus

Latin -iānusbor.

English -ian

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French bohémieninflu.

English Bohemian

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *-mós

Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)

Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.

English -ism

English Bohemianism

From Bohemian + -ism.

Noun

Bohemianism (countable and uncountable, plural Bohemianisms)

2. A Bohemian lifestyle.
   • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 130:

     It was all very well, this Bohemianism of red lamp-shades and cigarettes, but in the cold grey light that filtered through Partridge's grimy windows it did not show to any great advantage.

4. (rhetoric) A word or phrase characteristic of the Bohemian language.

   Synonyms: Czechism, Bohemism

   • 1961, Slovak Studies, numbers 1–2, page 33:

     […] Pannonianisms are in reality Bohemianisms.

Coordinate terms

foreignismsedit

• Akkadianism, Akkadism
• Americanism
• Amharism
• Anglicism
• Arabism
• Aramaism, Aramaicism, Arameanism, Aramism
• Armenism
• Australianism
• Batavism
• Belorussianism
• Bengalism
• Briticism
• Bulgarism
• Catalanism
• Church Slavism, Church Slavicism, Church Slavonicism, Slavonicism
• Croatism
• Czechism, Bohemism, Bohemianism
• Gaelicism
• Gallicism, Frenchism
• Germanism, Teutonism
• Grecism, Hellenism
• Hebraism, Hebraicism
• Hispanism, Hispanicism, Castilianism
• Hungarianism, Magyarism
• Indianism
• Iranianism
• Irishism
• Italianism, Italicism
• Japanism
• Kazakhism
• Latinism
• Macedonianism, Macedonism
• Mandaism
• Moravianism
• New Zealandism
• Persianism
• Phoenicianism
• Polonism
• Portuguesism, Lusitanism
• Russianism
• Scotticism
• Semitism
• Serbism
• Serbo-Croatism
• Sinicism
• Slavism, Slavicism, Slavoidism
• Slovenism, Pannonianism
• Sumerianism, Sumerism
• Syriacism
• Turkism
• Ugaritism
• Ukrainism, Ukrainianism
• Uzbekism
• Yiddishism

Further reading

• “Bohemianism”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.