17th century, fromNew Latinarchaismus, fromAncient Greekἀρχαϊσμός(arkhaïsmós,“an antiquated phrase or style”), fromἀρχαίζω(arkhaízō,“to model one's style upon that of ancient writers”), fromἀρχαῖος(arkhaîos,“old, ancient”), fromἀρχή(arkhḗ,“beginning”), fromἄρχω(árkhō,“I begin”), fromProto-Indo-European*h₂ergʰ-(“to begin, rule, command”).
archaism (countable anduncountable,pluralarchaisms)
- The adoption or imitation ofarchaic words or style.
- An archaic word, style, etc.
In this text, the word "methinks" appears to be a deliberatearchaism.
1902,Robert Langton Douglas,A History of Siena:He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love ofarchaisms, of your true decadent.
archaic word, language
- Afrikaans:argaïsme (af)
- Albanian:arkaizëm m
- Armenian:հնաբանություն (hy)(hnabanutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani:arxaizm
- Belarusian:архаі́зм m(arxaízm)
- Bulgarian:архаи́зъм (bg) m(arhaízǎm)
- Catalan:arcaisme (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:古詞 /古词 (zh)(gǔcí),古語 /古语 (zh)(gǔyǔ)
- Czech:archaismus (cs) m
- Danish:arkaisme
- Dutch:archaïsme (nl) n
- Esperanto:arĥaismo,arkaismo
- Estonian:arhaism
- Finnish:arkaismi (fi)
- French:archaïsme (fr) m
- Georgian:მოძველებული სიტყვა(moʒvelebuli siṭq̇va),არქაიზმი(arkaizmi)
- German:Archaismus (de) m
- Greek:αρχαιοπρέπεια (el) f(archaioprépeia)
- Ancient:ἀρχαϊσμός m(arkhaïsmós)
- Hungarian:archaizmus (hu)
- Indonesian:arkaisme (id)
- Irish:ársaíocht f
- Italian:arcaismo (it) m
- Japanese:古語 (ja)(こご, kogo),アルカイズム(arukaizumu),アーケイズム(ākeizumu)
- Kazakh:архаизм(arxaizm)
- Korean:의고체(擬古體)(uigoche),고문체(古文體)(gomunche),고어(古語) (ko)(go'eo)
- Kyrgyz:архаизм (ky)(arhaizm)
- Ladino:arkaizmo m
- Latvian:arhaisms m
- Lithuanian:archaizmas m
- Macedonian:архаи́зам m(arhaízam)
- Manx:shenn-chaaynt f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:arkaisme (no) m
- Nynorsk:arkaisme m
- Persian:باستانگرایی(bâstân-garâyi)
- Polish:archaizm (pl) m
- Portuguese:arcaísmo (pt) m
- Romanian:arhaism (ro) n,cuvânt învechit n
- Russian:архаи́зм (ru) m(arxaízm)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:архаѝзам m
- Roman:arhaìzam (sh) m
- Slovak:archaizmus (sk) m
- Slovene:arhaizem m
- Spanish:arcaísmo (es) m
- Swedish:arkaism (sv)
- Tajik:бостонгароӣ(bostongaroi),архаизм(arxayizm)
- Turkish:arkaizm (tr)
- Ukrainian:архаї́зм (uk) m(arxajízm)
- Uzbek:arxaizm (uz)
- Vietnamese:từ cổ,cổ ngữ (vi)
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- “archaism”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “archaism”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
- “archaism”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
