Atticismos

Latin

Alternative forms

• Atticismus

Etymology

Ancient Greek Ἀττῐκῐσμός (Attikismós)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /at.tiˈkis.mos/, [ät̪ːɪˈkɪs̠mɔs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /at.tiˈt͡ʃis.mos/, [ät̪ːiˈt͡ʃizmos]

Noun

Atticismos m (genitive Atticismī); second declension

1. (Late Latin, grammar) Atticism (employment of Attic expression, language, or style)
   • late AD 4th century, Diomedes Grammaticus, Artis Grammaticae libri III 440.16–23:

     Atthis, quae brevitati studet, admittit soloecismos, quos cum docti fecerint, non soloecismi sed schemata logu appellantur, ut est
      n u d a   g e n u
     et
      u r b e m   q u a m   s t a t u o   v e s t r a   e s t.
     ibi enim nudum genu habens debuit dicere et urbs quam statuo vestra est. sed serviens schemati quod appellatur hellenismos tres partes orationis redegit in duas usus per Atticismon.

     Attic, which favours concision, allows solecisms [which], when learned men have committed them, are called not solecisms but figures of speech, as for instance “nuda genu” [Virgil, Aeneid 1.320] and “urbem quam statuo vestra est” [opere citato 1.573]. For in those places [Virgil] ought to have said “nudum genu habens” and “urbs quam statuo vestra est”. But in service to the [rhetorical] figure, that which is called Hellenism has reduced the three parts of speech to the two of usage on account of Atticism.

Declension

Second-declension noun (Greek-type).

	singular	plural
nominative	Atticismos	Atticismī
genitive	Atticismī	Atticismōrum
dative	Atticismō	Atticismīs
accusative	Atticismon	Atticismōs
ablative	Atticismō	Atticismīs
vocative	Atticisme	Atticismī

Descendants

• → French: atticisme
• → Spanish: aticismo

Further reading

• attĭcismŏs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 183/3.