🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

प्रादेशिक शब्दकोश

Native Script:हिंदी देवनागरी

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pradeshik shabdakosh

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Idioticon/ˌɪd.iˈɒt.ɪ.kɒn/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #45000 frequency
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"शोधकर्ता ने प्रादेशिक शब्दकोश का अध्ययन किया।"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A dictionary or lexicon of a particular dialect, regional idioms, or provincialisms.

    "The historian consulted an old Swiss-German idioticon to understand the obscure rural terms used in the 17th-century manuscripts."
  2. 2

    A collection of words or phrases peculiar to a specific writer, group, or subject.

    "His specialized idioticon of maritime slang proved invaluable to readers of classic sea fiction."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Modern Latin 'idioticum', based on the Ancient Greek 'idiōtikos' meaning 'private, peculiar, proper to an individual or place', combined with the neuter suffix for a dictionary or collection. It entered English in the 19th century primarily through scholarly discourse to denote regional glossaries or collections of local idioms and dialects.

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