The corpus record — Latin

barbarismus

barbarismus · m

an impropriety of speech

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Where it lives

Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Institutio Oratoria 10 · 0.58/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

barbărismus — Lewis & Short

barbărismus, i, m., = barbarismo/s,

I an impropriety of speech, barbarism; esp. of pronunciation (acc. to Gell. 13, 6, 14; cf. id. 5, 20, 1, not in use before the Aug. per.; in Nigidius, instead of it, rusticus sermo), Quint. 1, 5, 5 sq.; Auct. Her. 4, 12, 17; Gell. l. l.; 5, 20, 4; Don. p. 1767 sq. P.; Charis. p. 237 sq.; id. Diom. p. 446 sq. P. al.; cf. the foll.

In the wild

barbarismus Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 9.III.p3
barbarismi Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.5.10
barbarismi Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.5.15
barbarismum Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.5.16
barbarismos Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.5.6
barbarismi Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.5.5

6 of 15 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.