atticisme
French, noun/a.ti.sism/
atticisme is spelled A-T-T-I-C-I-S-M-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 52 million words in written French, the 229,021st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Atticisme is a French masculine noun meaning “Atticism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Délicatesse de langage, finesse de goût particulière aux Athéniens”.
What does atticisme mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineAtticism
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Délicatesse de langage, finesse de goût particulière aux Athéniens. 2. Style, maintien qui joint l’élégance à la pureté. 3. Forme de langage particulière au dialecte attique.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of atticisme
- atticismes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce atticisme?
- /a.ti.sism/
- /a.ti.sizm/
- \a.ti.sism\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is atticisme in French?
atticisme appears about once in every 52 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).