IDIOM

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) In Philology, a mode of speaking or writing foreign from the usages of universal grammar or the general laws of language, and restricted to the genins of some individual tongue. Thus, a sentence or phrase consisting of words arranged in a particular manner may be a Latin idiom; the same, arranged in a different manner, an English idiom, . The use of a particular inflexion of a word may also be an idiom. We also use the term idiom in a more general sense, to expre the general genius or character of a language. We have a number of subordinate words to expre the idioms of particular tongues: thus, a Latin idiom is a Latinism, a French idiom a Gallicism, . The word idiom is also not uncommonly, but incorrectly, used in the same sense with the French idionw; a dialect or variety of language. Idiot is me is the French term expre ing the correct signification of the English " idiom." [s. 597]