Gallicism
/ˈɡalɪˌsɪz(ə)m
/noun
A French idiom, especially one adopted by speakers of another language.The term ‘finance’ originated with the Old French finer (to end or settle, applied to indebtedness) and crept into other Romance languages as a Gallicism and into English via the Middle English ‘finance.’...
- One of the reasons given by Sprache in ‘der Politik’ for replacing Anglo-Americanisms with Gallicisms is that German already has lots of French words that could be used more often.
- Well may he be said to follow the French Translator blindly; and less is the wonder that he adopts his Gallicisms where he happens to understand him.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from French gallicisme, from Latin Gallicus (see Gallic).
- Pallas's warbler
- pallavi
- pall-bearer
- pallescent
- pallet
- pallet arbor
- pallet box
- palleted
- palleting
- palletisation
- palletise
- palletization
- palletize
- pallet leather
- pallet spring
- pallet stone
- palletting
- pallet truck
- pallia
- pallial
- pallial adductor
- pallial cavity
- pallial chamber
- pallial line
- pallial sinus