Aramaeism

• Aramæism, Arameism

Formed in English from Aramaean +‎ -ism by swapping -an with -ism.

Aramaeism (countable and uncountable, plural Aramaeisms)

1. (hypercorrect, rare) Misconstruction of Aramaism
   • 1863, Samuel Davidson, An Introduction to the Old Testament, Critical, Historical and Theological, Containing a Discussion of the Most Important Questions Belonging to the Several Books, volume 3, Covent Garden and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, page 23:

     The diction is tolerably free from Aramaeism because the prophet was so familiar with the earlier writers, especially Isaiah, as to have imbibed much of their spirit and reproduced it.

The ending -aeismus (or -æismus) is a hypercorrect one not attested in Classical Latin, as it would imply a Greek -αϊισμός (-aïismós), which does not exist. Greek formations use -αϊσμός (-aïsmós) instead, Latinized as -aismus: e.g. Ancient Greek Ἰουδαϊσμός (Ioudaïsmós) (Latin iudaismus), from Ancient Greek Ἰουδαῖος (Ioudaîos) (Latin iudaeus).