dialect
pronunciation
How to pronounce dialect in British English:
UK [ˈdaɪəlekt]
How to pronounce dialect in American English:
US [ˈdaɪəlekt]
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- Noun:
- the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Word Origin
- dialect
- dialect: [16] The notion underlying dialect and its relatives dialectic [14] and dialogue [13] is of ‘conversation’. They come ultimately from Greek dialégesthai ‘converse’, a compound verb formed from the prefix dia- ‘with each other’ and légein ‘speak’ (source of English lecture and a wide range of related words). This formed the basis of two derived nouns.First diálektos ‘conversation, discourse’, hence ‘way of speaking’ and eventually ‘local speech’, which passed into English via Latin dialectus and Old French dialecte (from it was produced the adjective dialektikós ‘of conversation, discussion, or debate’, which was eventually to become English dialectic). Secondly diálogos ‘conversation’, which again reached English via Latin and Old French.=> lecture
- dialect (n.)
- 1570s, "form of speech of a region or group," from Middle French dialecte, from Latin dialectus "local language, way of speaking, conversation," from Greek dialektos "talk, conversation, speech;" also "the language of a country, dialect," from dialegesthai "converse with each other," from dia- "across, between" (see dia-) + legein "speak" (see lecture (n.)).
Example
- 1. The tuscany dialect became what we now know as italian .
- 2. School would be over soon . He no longer complained about berry or his classmates , whose dialect he could barely understand .
- 3. Even osaka 's dialect is distinct .
- 4. Groups even appear to communicate in their own unique dialect .
- 5. Clojure is a dialect of lisp , recently released in version 1.0 .