atavisme

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

atavisme m (plural atavismes)

1. atavism

Related terms

• atàvic

Further reading

• “atavisme”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “atavisme”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “atavisme” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “atavisme”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ta.vism/ ~ /a.ta.vizm/

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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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 (plural atavisme-atavisme)

1. atavism

Further reading

• “atavisme”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), 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.