Masculine

dialecte

Meaning

  1. (masculine) language socially subordinate to a regional or national standard language, often historically cognate to the standard, but not a variety of it or in any other sense derived from it
  2. (colloquial, masculine) dialect

Frequency

23k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/dja.lɛkt/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Middle French dialecte, from Latin dialectus, from Ancient Greek διάλεκτος (diálektos).

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