cultismo

Portuguese

Etymology

From culto (“learned, educated”) +‎ -ismo.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuwˈt͡ʃiz.mu/ [kuʊ̯ˈt͡ʃiz.mu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuwˈt͡ʃiz.mu/ [kuʊ̯ˈt͡ʃiz.mu]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kuwˈt͡ʃiʒ.mu/ [kuʊ̯ˈt͡ʃiʒ.mu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuwˈt͡ʃiz.mo/ [kuʊ̯ˈt͡ʃiz.mo]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kulˈtiʒ.mu/ [kuɫˈtiʒ.mu]

• Hyphenation: cul‧tis‧mo

Noun

cultismo m (plural cultismos)

1. inkhorn term (obscure or affected word)
2. (linguistics) learned borrowing

   Coordinate term: patrimonialismo

See also

• Portuguese learned borrowings

Further reading

• “cultismo”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “cultismo”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2025
• “cultismo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “cultismo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “cultismo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Etymology

From culto (“learned, educated”) +‎ -ismo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kulˈtismo/ [kul̪ˈt̪iz.mo]
• Rhymes: -ismo
• Syllabification: cul‧tis‧mo

Noun

cultismo m (plural cultismos)

1. inkhorn term (obscure or affected word)
   • 2015 July 30, “La deconstrucción de un cobarde”, in El País‎^[1]:

     A favor de Rambert hay que decir que su cultismo no es un accidente.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (linguistics) learned borrowing

   Coordinate term: patrimonialismo

Derived terms

• semicultismo

Related terms

• cultista

See also

• Spanish learned borrowings

Further reading

• “cultismo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10