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Meaning of "iotacism" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF IOTACISM

aɪˈəʊtəˌsɪzəm


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IOTACISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Iotacism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES IOTACISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Iotacism

Iotacism is the process by which a number of vowels and diphthongs in Ancient Greek converged in pronunciation so that they all sound like iota in Modern Greek. In the case of the letter eta specifically, this process is known as itacism.

Definition of iotacism in the English dictionary

The definition of iotacism in the dictionary is a tendency of vowels and diphthongs, esp in Modern Greek, to acquire the pronunciation of the vowel iota ((iː )).

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IOTACISM

aestheticism · betacism · Catholicism · criticism · cynicism · demoniacism · eclecticism · eroticism · fanaticism · histrionicism · itacism · labdacism · lambdacism · mysticism · narcissism · neoclassicism · neuroticism · polysynthesism · rhotacism · romanticism

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IOTACISM

ionomer · ionone · ionopause · ionophore · ionophoreses · ionophoresis · ionosonde · ionosphere · ionospheric · ionospheric wave · ionospherically · ionotropic · ionotropic receptor · ionotropy · iontophoreses · iontophoresis · iontophoretic · IOOF · iota

WORDS THAT END LIKE IOTACISM

agnosticism · antiracism · athleticism · classicism · etacism · exorcism · exoticism · fascism · literary criticism · mosaicism · ostracism · racism · reverse racism · scepticism · scholasticism · self-criticism · skepticism · supremacism · textual criticism · witticism

Synonyms and antonyms of iotacism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «iotacism» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF IOTACISM

Find out the translation of iotacism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of iotacism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «iotacism» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

iotacism
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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iotacism
570 millions of speakers
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English

iotacism
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

iotacism
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يأيأة
280 millions of speakers
ru

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iotacism
278 millions of speakers
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iotacism
270 millions of speakers
bn

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iotacism
260 millions of speakers
fr

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iotacism
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Iotacism
190 millions of speakers
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iotacism
180 millions of speakers
ja

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iotacism
130 millions of speakers
ko

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iotacism
85 millions of speakers
jv

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Iotacism
85 millions of speakers
vi

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iotacism
80 millions of speakers
ta

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iotacism
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

आयोस्टीम
75 millions of speakers
tr

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iotacism
70 millions of speakers
it

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iotacism
65 millions of speakers
pl

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iotacism
50 millions of speakers
uk

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iotacism
40 millions of speakers
ro

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iotacism
30 millions of speakers
el

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iotacism
15 millions of speakers
af

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iotacism
14 millions of speakers
sv

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iotacism
10 millions of speakers
no

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iotacism
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of iotacism

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IOTACISM»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about iotacism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IOTACISM»

Discover the use of iotacism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to iotacism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Greek Grammar of F. Thiersch Translated from the German ...
These two modes were distinguished as Erasmt'an and Reucltlinian, also as Etacism and Iotacism, according to the predominant sound in each. Ohm—The French and English follow in most particulars the Erasmian method; yet they mix with ...
Friedrich Wilhelm von THIERSCH, Sir Daniel Keyte SANDFORD, 1830
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The Greek Grammar of Frederick Thiersch
These two modes were distinguished as Erasmian and Reuchlinian, also as Etacism and Iotacism, according to the predominant sound in each. Obs The French and English follow in most particulars the Erasmian method ; yet they mix with it ...
Friedrich Wilhelm von Thiersch, 1830
3
Vague Souvenir
This morning he talked about iotacism, one of his favorite subjects. If you had told him that it was not a subject for such a young mind, he would have been indignant. What was more important than understanding how a language evolves in ...
Claude Lambert, 2011
4
Noctes Atticae: 34 Articles on Graeco-Roman Antiquity and ...
However, E has eoir|v, an error caused by the phenomenon of iotacism, and the scribe of Y mistakenly emends this into e'ain. Almost equally conspicuous is 439a1, where the general manuscript reading is TI, which is also the right reading.
Bettina Amden, 2002
5
Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily
above, where the koine forms were restricted to items of vocabulary, features of the spoken language, such as iotacism and even 1] instead of 61, have seeped in. The linguistic data provided by the other defixiones is quite small (there are ...
Olga Tribulato, 2012
6
American Indian and Indoeuropean Studies: Papers in Honor of ...
-i/y- from an earlier base in -E will henceforth be called iotacism. Iotacism also occurs in bases which receive consonantal enlargement. Thus *gheE 'to gape, yawn'. (Gr. khtisko 'I yawn', khémé 'the action of yawning') gave *ghéy- before ...
Kathryn Klar, Margaret Langdon, Shirley Silver, 1980
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Palæoromaica, or Historical and philogical disquisitions [by ...
Savirai and a<pisra», assumitur and reiinquitur, quite improperly, but owing it should seem to the iotacism. In like manner our Lord, at Matth. xxvi. 2, says in the Vulgate, post biduum Paschajiet, etJiHus kominis TRADETUR ut crucifiga- tur.
John Black (author of Palæoromaica.), 1822
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Palaeoromaica: Or Historical and Philological Disquisitions, ...
Instead of assumetur and relinquetur in verses 40 and 41, we have in the Greek Vulgate □jragaXafi- SctvsToti and aftsrai, assumitur and relinquitur, quite improperly, but owing it should seem to the iotacism. In like manner our Lord, at Matth.
John Black, 1822
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Articles on Koine Greek, Including: Dionysius Thrax, Ptolemy ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Hephaestus Books, 2011
10
On the living language of the Greeks, and its utility to the ...
dust, are sufficiently aware of the fact, that the manner in which the modern Greeks pronounce their language with its much bespoken iotacism and accents, though not in every tittle as old as the oracles of Phemonoe, who preceded the ...
John Stuart Blackie, 1853
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Iotacism [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/iotacism>. May 2024 ».
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