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Gallicism

characteristic feature of the French language occurring in another language
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Gallicism

Summary

Gallicism ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (125 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Gallicism is a type of loanword[2].
  • Gallicism is a type of foreignism[3].
  • Gallicism's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Terms borrowed from French[4].
  • Gallicism's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[5].
  • Gallicism's has list is recorded as list of German words of French origin[6].
  • Gallicism's exact match is recorded as http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133099474[7].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include loanword[2] and foreignism[3].

Why It Matters

Gallicism ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (125 views/month).[1] Gallicism has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] Gallicism is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 24d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → gallicisms
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: gallicisms, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289929367|gallicisms (#289929367)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  2. 15w ago · MsynBot bot · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → loanword, foreignism
    Subclass of → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Terms borrowed from French
    Aliases → —
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ add badge [[Q70893996]] to enwiki sitelink; see [[Wikidata:Sitelinks to redirects]] for details #msynbotTask10"
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