Ostrazismus
Letters
11 characters
Language
German
word origin
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Ostrazismus is aGermannoun. It means: von 500 bis 417 vor Christus in Athen zum Schutz der Verfassung geschaffene Rechtsprechung durch ein eingesetztes Volksgericht, durch das missliebige Männer ohne Minderung ihres Vermögens und ihrer... Pronounced [ɔstʁaˈt͡sɪsmʊs].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ostrazismus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɔstʁaˈt͡sɪsmʊs] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Ostrazismus is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɔstʁaˈt͡sɪsmʊs]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Ostrazismus in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Ostrazismus, spelled O-S-T-R-A-Z-I-S-M-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1von 500 bis 417 vor Christus in Athen zum Schutz der Verfassung geschaffene Rechtsprechung durch ein eingesetztes Volksgericht, durch das missliebige Männer ohne Minderung ihres Vermögens und ihrer Bürgerrechte für zehn (in der Spätzeit für fünf) Jahre verbannt wurden
- 2Ächtung oder ernsthafte Androhung von Ächtung eines Gruppenmitgliedes in Gruppen, die normal einen ausgeprägten Zusammenhalt haben
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