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ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- barbarism (n.)
- mid-15c., "uncivilized or rude nature," from French
barbarisme (13c.), from Latin barbarismus, from Greek barbarismos
"foreign speech," from barbarizein "to do as a
foreigner does" (see barbarian).
Only of speech in Greek, Latin, and French; sense extended in
English to "uncivilized condition."
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