| 单词 |
metacism |
| 释义 |
metacism|ˈmɛtəsɪz(ə)m| [ad. late L. metacism-us, corruptly ad. late Gr. µυτακισµός ‘fondness for the letter µ’ (L. & Sc.), f. µῦ the name of the letter. Cf. itacism.] The placing of a word with final m before a word beginning with a vowel; regarded as a fault in Latin prose composition. This is the sense in the original of quot. 1844; but the grammarians explain metacismus or myotacismus as the fault of pronouncing a final m which ought to be elided before a following vowel.
[1656Blount Glossogr., Metacism, a fault in pronouncing.] 1844tr. St. Gregory's Morals on Job I. Epist. 11, I do not escape the collisions of metacism. |

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