idiolect

English

WOTD – 22 February 2011

Etymology

From idio- +‎ -lect.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɪd.i.əʊ̯.lɛkt/, /ˈɪd.i.ə.lɛkt/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɪd.i.ə.lɛkt/
(New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɘ.di.ɐʉ.lekt/
Audio (AU) (file)

Noun

idiolect (plural idiolects)

(linguistics) The language variant used by a specific individual.
- 2012, John Mullan, What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved, page 3:
  She perfected the fictional idiolect, fashioning habits of speaking for even minor characters that rendered them utterly singular.

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Related terms

idioculture

Translations

variant of a language used by a particular individual

Catalan: idiolecte (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 個人習語／个人习语 (gèrén xíyǔ)
Czech: idiolekt (cs) m
Danish: idiolekt c
Finnish: yksilömurre, idiolekti (fi)
French: idiolecte (fr) m
German: Idiolekt (de) m, Individualsprachgebrauch m
Greek: ιδιόλεκτος (el) f (idiólektos), ιδιόλεκτο (el) n (idiólekto)
Hungarian: idiolektus (hu)
Icelandic: einkamállýska f
Indonesian: idiolek (id)
Irish: canúint aonair f, urlabhra aonair f, idióileict f, féinchanúint f
Italian: idioletto m
Japanese: 個人語 (こじんご, kojingo)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Malay: idiolek
Maori: reo-ā-tangata
Norwegian:
Bokmål: idiolekt m

Nynorsk: idiolekt m or f
Polish: idiolekt (pl) m, język osobniczy (pl) m, mowa osobnicza f
Portuguese: idioleto (pt) m
Romanian: idiolect (ro) n
Russian: идиоле́кт (ru) m (idiolékt)
Spanish: idiolecto (es) m
Swedish: idiolekt (sv) c
Tagalog: sariwika
Ukrainian: ідіоле́кт m (idiolékt)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English idiolect.

Noun

idiolect n (plural idiolecte)

idiolect

Declension

Declension of idiolect

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) idiolect	idiolectul	(niște) idiolecte	idiolectele
genitive/dative	(unui) idiolect	idiolectului	(unor) idiolecte	idiolectelor
vocative	idiolectule		idiolectelor

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