Dictionary

acyrology en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌæsɪˈɹɒləd͡ʒi/

Meanings

1. (Early, Modern, archaic, uncountable) The incorrect use of language.
   • Ancient commentators found the phrase distinctive, as well, but in a peculiar way: one of them labelled [one phrase] an instance of catachresis, a type of solecism. Similarly, Servius calls [another] an instance of acyrology, also a type of solecism. 2016, Joseph Farrell, “Ancient Commentaries on Theocritus’ Idylls and Virgil’s Eclogues”, in Christina S. Kraus, Christopher Stray, editors, Classical Commentaries: Explorations in a Scholarly Genre, →ISBN, page 402:

Relateds

acyrologia

Translations (1)

it acirologia (incorrect use of language)