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S0546400 (sŏl′ĭ-sĭz′əm, sō′lĭ-)n.1. A nonstandard usage or grammatical construction.2. A violation of etiquette.3. An impropriety, mistake, or incongruity.

[Latin soloecismus, from Greek soloikismos, from soloikizein, to speak incorrectly, from soloikos, speaking incorrectly, after Soloi (Soli), an Athenian colony in Cilicia where a dialect regarded as substandard was spoken.]

sol′e·cist n.sol′e·cis′tic adj.

solecism

(ˈsɒlɪˌsɪzəm) n1. (Grammar) the nonstandard use of a grammatical construction2. any mistake, incongruity, or absurdity3. a violation of good manners[C16: from Latin soloecismus, from Greek soloikismos, from soloikos speaking incorrectly, from Soloi an Athenian colony of Cilicia where the inhabitants spoke a corrupt form of Greek] ˈsolecist n ˌsoleˈcistic, ˌsoleˈcistical adj ˌsoleˈcistically adv

sol•e•cism

(ˈsɒl əˌsɪz əm, ˈsoʊ lə-)

n. 1. a nonstandard or ungrammatical usage, as unflammable or they was. 2. a breach of good manners or etiquette. 3. any error, impropriety, or inconsistency. [1570–80; < Latin soloecismus < Greek soloikismós=sóloik(os) (Sólo(i) a city in Cilicia where a corrupt form of Attic Greek was spoken + -ikos -ic) + -ismos -ism] sol′e•cist, n. sol`e•cis′tic, adj.

solecism

a violation of conventional usage and grammar, as “I are sixty year old.” — solecist, n. — solecistic, solecistical, adj.See also: Grammar

solecism

A usage that constitutes a breach of the standard rules of grammar or syntax.

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solecism - a socially awkward or tactless act faux pas, gaffe, slip, gaucherieblooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall, bloomer - an embarrassing mistake

solecism

nounA term that offends against established usage standards:barbarism, corruption, vulgarism.

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σολοικισμόςsolécisme

solecism

a. the nonstandard use of a grammatical construction b. any mistake, incongruity, or absurdity

Solecism

in poetics, an incorrect turn of speech used as a stylistic element; a figure of speech generally used to create a “low” style. As with other figures of speech, there are different types of solecisms. These are solecism formed by addition (pleonasm), by omission (ellipsis), and by substitution. The last type is divided into morphological solecism, or enallage, as in “of taking a walk there can be no question” or “citizen, don’t let’s,” and syntactical solecism, or anacoluthon, as in “I order that a warning be given that he should calm his madness, and that there is a limit to everything.”

In linguistics, solecism is an incorrect choice of a grammatical form for a syntactic structure. An example is the incorrect colloquial Russian use of skol’ko vremia (“what time is it?”) instead of the correct skol’ko vremeni. Here the nominative form of vremia (“time”) is incorrectly used after skol’ko (“how much”) instead of the grammatically correct genitive (vremeni). Another example is the French Quoiqu’il est tard (incorrect use of indicative for subjunctive) instead of the correct Quoiqu’il soit tard.

Solecisms may result from the influence of dialectical speech. They may also be caused by violation of the rules for agreement of parts of a sentence. An example of this is “Anyone who needs care in a sanatorium, it is necessary to provide it” instead of “. . . will be provided with it.” Solecisms may also result from violation of the rules for agreement of main and subordinate clauses, as in “I am ashamed, as an honorable officer” (A. S. Griboedov).

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noun a term that offends against established usage standards

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noun a socially awkward or tactless act

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