THE LOGOPHILE LEXICON
PART I: LANGUAGE AND LEXICOLOGY
IN THIS SECTION
1.1: Study of Language & Lexicology
1.2: Creation, , Omission & Alteration of Words
1.3a: Misuse and Misinterpretation
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1.1: Study of Language & Lexicology
1.2: Creation, , Omission & Alteration of Words
1.3a: Misuse and Misinterpretation
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1.2: Creation, Omission & Alteration of Words
ABECEDISM - word created from the initials of words in a phrase
ANAGRAM - used when a writer jumbles up parts of the word to create a new word.
ANAPTYXIS - the process by which a new word is formed by inserting a vowel sound between successive consonants in an older word.
APHAERESIS - loss of the initial portion of a word. For example, cause from because; specially from especially.
APOCOPE - loss of the final portion of a word. For example, info from information; cinema from cinematograph.
CALQUE - word or expression introduced into a language by literally translating it
CRUCIVERBALIST - a constructor of crossword puzzles; also, an enthusiast of word games, especially crossword puzzles.
DYSTMESIS - inserting a word in the middle of another in an unlikely or unexpected place; a form of tmesis. "Unbe-freaking-lievable."
ECHOISM - formation of imitative words
ELISION - the omission of a letter or syllable. "Don't" instead of "do not."
ELLIPSIS - the omission of words in a sentence needed to complete an idea explicitly.
EPITHESIS - addition of one or more letters to a word
EPONYMY - the introduction of words into a language that are derived from the names of people or places.
ETYMON - true origin of a word
ETYMOLOGY - study of origins of words
HAPLOGRAPHY - omission of words or lines in recopying text
HAPAX LEGOMENON - a word that occurs only once in the recorded corpus of a given language. "Flother," a synonym for "snowflake," which, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is used in a manuscript from circa 1275 and not known to have been used elsewhere.
HAPLOLOGY - the process by which a word is formed by removing one of two identical or similar adjacent syllables in an earlier word. "Nutrix," the Latin word meaning "nurse," was formed from the earlier word "nutritrix."
HOBSON-JOBSON - an Anglicized word or phrase corrupted from one or more words of an Asian language.
LOAN-WORD - word borrowed from another language
LOGODAEDALUS - craftsman of words
LOGODAEDALY - refers to the arbitrary coining of new words.
METAPLASM - a general term for any change or transformation of the letters or syllables in single words, including inversions, substitutions, additions, and omissions
METATHESIS - the transposition of letters within a word
NEOLOGISM (nonce word) - neologism is a newly invented word or term A nonce word is one coined “for the nonce” - made up for one occasion and not likely to be encountered again.
NEOTERISM - introduction of new things, especially words
NOMENCLATOR - lexicon; word-list; one who assigns names
NOTARIKON - making words from letters taken from throughout a sentence
PARAGOGE - the process by which a new word is formed by adding a letter or syllable to the end of another word. Same as "proparalepsis." "Climature," derived from "climate."
PROTHESIS - the addition of a letter or syllable to the beginning of a word
RHINESTONE VOCABULARY - words or phrases chosen only because they appeal to a particular person or group. For example, political speakers use the likes of 'family values', 'equal rights', and 'lower taxes' for easy impact.
SPOONERISM - the interchanging of the first letters of some words in order to create new words or nonsensical words to convey humor.
SYNCOPE - cutting letters or syllables from the middle of a word
TMESIS - inserting a word in the middle of another;separation of the parts of a compound word by one or more intervening word
ANAGRAM - used when a writer jumbles up parts of the word to create a new word.
ANAPTYXIS - the process by which a new word is formed by inserting a vowel sound between successive consonants in an older word.
APHAERESIS - loss of the initial portion of a word. For example, cause from because; specially from especially.
APOCOPE - loss of the final portion of a word. For example, info from information; cinema from cinematograph.
CALQUE - word or expression introduced into a language by literally translating it
CRUCIVERBALIST - a constructor of crossword puzzles; also, an enthusiast of word games, especially crossword puzzles.
DYSTMESIS - inserting a word in the middle of another in an unlikely or unexpected place; a form of tmesis. "Unbe-freaking-lievable."
ECHOISM - formation of imitative words
ELISION - the omission of a letter or syllable. "Don't" instead of "do not."
ELLIPSIS - the omission of words in a sentence needed to complete an idea explicitly.
EPITHESIS - addition of one or more letters to a word
EPONYMY - the introduction of words into a language that are derived from the names of people or places.
ETYMON - true origin of a word
ETYMOLOGY - study of origins of words
HAPLOGRAPHY - omission of words or lines in recopying text
HAPAX LEGOMENON - a word that occurs only once in the recorded corpus of a given language. "Flother," a synonym for "snowflake," which, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is used in a manuscript from circa 1275 and not known to have been used elsewhere.
HAPLOLOGY - the process by which a word is formed by removing one of two identical or similar adjacent syllables in an earlier word. "Nutrix," the Latin word meaning "nurse," was formed from the earlier word "nutritrix."
HOBSON-JOBSON - an Anglicized word or phrase corrupted from one or more words of an Asian language.
LOAN-WORD - word borrowed from another language
LOGODAEDALUS - craftsman of words
LOGODAEDALY - refers to the arbitrary coining of new words.
METAPLASM - a general term for any change or transformation of the letters or syllables in single words, including inversions, substitutions, additions, and omissions
METATHESIS - the transposition of letters within a word
NEOLOGISM (nonce word) - neologism is a newly invented word or term A nonce word is one coined “for the nonce” - made up for one occasion and not likely to be encountered again.
NEOTERISM - introduction of new things, especially words
NOMENCLATOR - lexicon; word-list; one who assigns names
NOTARIKON - making words from letters taken from throughout a sentence
PARAGOGE - the process by which a new word is formed by adding a letter or syllable to the end of another word. Same as "proparalepsis." "Climature," derived from "climate."
PROTHESIS - the addition of a letter or syllable to the beginning of a word
RHINESTONE VOCABULARY - words or phrases chosen only because they appeal to a particular person or group. For example, political speakers use the likes of 'family values', 'equal rights', and 'lower taxes' for easy impact.
SPOONERISM - the interchanging of the first letters of some words in order to create new words or nonsensical words to convey humor.
SYNCOPE - cutting letters or syllables from the middle of a word
TMESIS - inserting a word in the middle of another;separation of the parts of a compound word by one or more intervening word
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