cacozelia

From Latin cacozēlia (“a bad, faulty, awkward imitation”), from Ancient Greek κᾰκοζηλία (kakozēlía, “unhappy imitation, affectation”).

cacozelia (uncountable)

1. (rhetoric) A stylistic affectation of diction, such as throwing in foreign words to appear learned.
2. (rhetoric) Bad taste in words or selection of metaphor, either to make the facts appear worse or to disgust the auditors.

• (affectation of diction): soraismus, Graecism, Hebraism

• Silva Rhetoricae

From Ancient Greek κᾰκοζηλία (kakozēlía, “unhappy imitation", "affectation”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ka.kozˈzeː.li.a/, [käkɔz̪ˈd̪͡z̪eːlʲiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.kodˈd͡ze.li.a/, [käkod̪ˈd̪͡z̪ɛːliä]

cacozēlia f (genitive cacozēliae); first declension

1. A bad, faulty, awkward imitation.

First-declension noun.

• cacozēlus

• English: cacozelia

• “cacozelia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press