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atticisme.

a rhetorical and subsequently grammatical movement of the Hellenistic and Roman periods that favoured the Attic rhetorical style and language over the Ancient Greek rhetoric or language of Asia Minor

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noun/ˌɑ.tiˈsɪs.mə/
  1. a rhetorical and subsequently grammatical movement of the Hellenistic and Roman periods that favoured the Attic rhetorical style and language over the Ancient Greek rhetoric or language of Asia Minor

    neuter · no-diminutive · uncountable
  2. an Atticism, an Ancient Greek linguistic phenomenon particular to Attic Greek

    countable · neuter · no-diminutive
Where this word comes from

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ττῐκῐσμός (ăttĭkĭsmós). By surface analysis, Attica + -isme.

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