The corpus record

ἰδῐωτ-ισμός

idiotismos · ὁ

way, fashion of a common person, homely, vulgar phrase

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Where it lives

Enchiridion 2 · 4.03/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

way, fashion of a common person, homely, vulgar phrase

way or fashion of a common person, Epict. Ench. 33.6, S.E. M. 1.67, Dam. Isid. 223; in language, homely, vulgar phrase, Phld. Po. 2.71, Longin. 31.1, D.L. 7.59.

2 argumentum ad hominem

Rhet., argumentum ad hominem, usu. in the form of a hypothetical question, Rufin. Fig. 10.

In the wild

ἰδιωτισμόν · idiōtismon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5878)
ἰδιωτισμόν · idiōtismon Epictetus, Enchiridion 33 (DIORISIS sentence 260)
ἰδιωτισμὸν · idiōtismon Epictetus, Enchiridion 33 (DIORISIS sentence 285)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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