xenisme
See also: xénisme
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
xenisme m (plural xenismes)
- an unadapted loanword designating a culturally-significant object or concept which has no exact equivalent in the borrowing language
Hypernyms
- estrangerisme
Further reading
- “xenisme”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007