æolism
(ˈiːəlɪz(ə)m)
[f. æolian a. or æolic a. + -ism.]
A style or idiom characteristic of or restricted to the æolic dialect of Greek.
| 1847 Grote Hist. Greece ii. xxix. 117 He composed in the Laconian dialect—a variety of the Doric with some intermixture of æolisms. 1884 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. V. 521 First must be eliminated from the so-called Aeolisms all phenomena which, so far from deserving the name of Aeolisms, do not so much as occur in Aeolic. 1950 H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monum. viii. 459 All ‘Aeolisms’..in these two categories can be equally well explained as examples of primitive Ionic preserved by the exigencies of metre. |