phraseology

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φράσις ‎(phrásis, “speech”) + λόγος ‎(lógos, “explanation”).

Noun

phraseology ‎(usually uncountable, plural phraseologies)

1. study of set or fixed expressions
2. the style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech
3. a group of specialized words and expressions used by a particular group
4. a collection of phrases; a phrasebook

Translations

study of set or fixed expressions

• Armenian: դարձվածաբանություն (hy) ‎(darjvacabanutʿyun)
• Catalan: fraseologia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 成語學, 成语学 (zh) ‎(chéngyǔxué)

• Czech: frazeologie (cs) f
• Finnish: fraseologia
• French: phraséologie (fr) f

• Georgian: ფრაზეოლოგია ‎(prazeologia)
• German: Phraseologie (de) f
• Greek: φρασεολογία (el) f ‎(fraseología)
• Italian: fraseologia (it) f
• Portuguese: fraseologia (pt) f
• Russian: фразеоло́гия (ru) f ‎(frazeológija)
• Spanish: fraseología

the style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 用語 (zh), 用语 (zh) ‎(yòngyǔ)

• Czech: dikce (cs) f, výrazivo n
• Finnish: fraseologia
• Japanese: 言葉遣い (ja) ‎(ことばづかい, kotobadzukai), 表現法 ‎(ひょうげんほう, hyōgenhō), 用語 (ja) ‎(ようご, yōgo), 口回し ‎(くちまわし, kuchimawashi), 言い回し ‎(いいまわし, iimawashi)

• Portuguese: fraseologia (pt) f
• Russian: фразеоло́гия (ru) f ‎(frazeológija), слог (ru) m ‎(slog), стиль (ru) m ‎(stilʹ) (ре́чи, письма́)

group of specialized words and expressions

• Catalan: fraseologia f
• Czech: výrazové prostředky m pl
• Finnish: fraseologia

• Italian: fraseologia (it) f
• Spanish: fraseología

phrasebook — see phrase book

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Translations to be checked

• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} frazeològija f
• Danish: fraseologi (1)

• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} málfar (is) n, ^{(please verify)} orðfæri n,^{(please verify)} mál (is) n
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} fraseologi m

See also

• terminology

External links

• Phraseology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia