learned borrowing

A word or other linguistic form borrowed from one language into another purposely instead of through normal language contact, especially one from a classical language.

Noun

  1. A word or other linguistic form borrowed from one language into another purposely instead of through normal language contact, especially one from a classical language.

    Synonyms: learned loanword learned loan

    Hypernyms: borrowing loanword

Forms

learned borrowings learnèd borrowing

Related

book word learnedism semi-learned borrowing tatsama