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Original entry ↗A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people. · A programming construct or phraseology that is characteristic of the language. · A language or language variety; specifically, a restricted dialect used in a given historical period, context, etc. · A phrasal expression that is unreliably understood literally, requiring pre-established cultural or domain-specific context to infer its intended meaning.
From Middle French idiome, and its source, Late Latin idioma, from Ancient Greek ἰδίωμα (idíōma, “a peculiarity, property, a peculiar phraseology, idiom”), from ἰδιοῦσθαι (idioûsthai, “to make one's own, appropriate to oneself”), from ἴδιος (ídios, “one's own, pertaining to oneself, private, personal, peculiar, separate”). By surface analysis, idi- + -om.
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