Atticismos

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ττῐκῐσμός (ăttĭkĭsmós).

Pronunciation 1

Noun

Atticismos m (genitive Atticismī); second declension

  1. (Late Latin, grammar) Atticism (employment of Attic expression, language, or style)
    • late 4th century CE, Diomedes Grammaticus, Artis Grammaticae libri III 440.16–23:
      Atthis, quae brevitati studet, admittit soloecismos, quos cum docti fecerint, non soloecismi sed schemata logu appellantur, ut est
         nuda genu
      et
         urbem quam statuo vestra est.
      ibi enim nudum genu habens debuit dicere et urbs quam statuo vestra est. sed serviens schemati quod appellatur hellenismos tres partes orationis redegit in duas usus per Atticismon.
      Attic, which favours concision, allows solecisms [which], when learned men have committed them, are called not solecisms but figures of speech, as for instance “nuda genu” [Virgil, Aeneid 1.320] and “urbem quam statuo vestra est” [opere citato 1.573]. For in those places [Virgil] ought to have said “nudum genu habens” and “urbs quam statuo vestra est”. But in service to the [rhetorical] figure, that which is called Hellenism has reduced the three parts of speech to the two of usage on account of Atticism.
Declension

Second-declension noun (Greek-type).

singular plural
nominative Atticismos Atticismī
Atticismoe
genitive Atticismī Atticismōrum
dative Atticismō Atticismīs
accusative Atticismon Atticismōs
ablative Atticismō Atticismīs
vocative Atticisme Atticismī
Atticismoe
Descendants
  • French: atticisme
  • Spanish: aticismo

Pronunciation 2

Noun

Atticismōs

  1. accusative plural of Atticismos and Atticismus

Further reading

  • attĭcismŏs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 183/3:attĭcismŏs, i, m. (ἀττιϰισμός), atticisme, employ du style attique: Diom. 440, 23.
  • atticismos in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 689:atticismos, ī, m. (ἀττιϰισμός), attiſcher Ausdruck, attiſche Mundart, Diom. 440, 23.
  • Joaquim Affonso Gonçalves (1936) [1841], Lexicon Magnum Latino-Sinicum, third edition, Digitized at Dickinson College, 2023, Peking: Typis Congregationis Missionis, Atticismus:Atticismus, i. m. 高文。亞帝人樣。