book word

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A word that is encountered in writing but not usually in speech, which people may therefore not know how to pronounce (correctly).
    — The second, being a ‘book word,’ has quite an artificial pronunciation.
  2. A word that is borrowed into a vernacular from a closely related literary language, thus being etymologically related to native vocabulary, but not showing regular sound changes.
    — French loyal and légal are both from Latin lēgālis. While the former was inherited, the latter is a book word.

词形变化

book words plural book-word alternative bookword alternative

词汇关系

相关词
learned borrowing

词源

From book + word.
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