cacozelia

English

Etymology

From Latin cacozēlia (“a bad, faulty, awkward imitation”), from Ancient Greek κᾰκοζηλία (kăkozēlía, “unhappy imitation, affectation”).

Noun

cacozelia (uncountable)

1. (rhetoric) A stylistic affectation of diction, such as throwing in foreign words to appear learned.
2. (rhetoric) Bad taste in words or selection of metaphor, either to make the facts appear worse or to disgust the auditors.

Hyponyms

• (affectation of diction): soraismus, Graecism, Hebraism

References

• Silva Rhetoricae

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κᾰκοζηλία (kăkozēlía, “unhappy imitation", "affectation”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ka.kozˈzeː.li.a/, [käkɔz̪ˈz̪eːlʲiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.kodˈd͡ze.li.a/, [käkod̪ˈd̪͡z̪ɛːliä]

Noun

cacozēlia f (genitive cacozēliae); first declension

1. A bad, faulty, awkward imitation.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cacozēlia	cacozēliae
genitive	cacozēliae	cacozēliārum
dative	cacozēliae	cacozēliīs
accusative	cacozēliam	cacozēliās
ablative	cacozēliā	cacozēliīs
vocative	cacozēlia	cacozēliae

Related terms

• cacozēlus

Descendants

• English: cacozelia

References

• “cacozelia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press