extranjerismo

Spanish

Etymology

From extranjero +‎ -ismo.

Noun

extranjerismo m (plural extranjerismos)

(countable) loanword, foreign word, borrowing
Synonym: préstamo

Hyponym: xenismo
(uncountable) foreignism (fondness for foreign cultures)

Derived terms

extranjerismo crudo (i.e. unadapted loan term, which shall properly be typed in italics)

Further reading

“extranjerismo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
extranjerismo on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

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