Topic: LINGUISTICS
| Date: | 1900-2000 |
| Origin: | idio- 'own, personal' (from Greek, from idios; IDIOT) + -lect (as in dialect) |
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id‧i‧o‧lect
[uncountable and countable] technical
[uncountable and countable] technicalSL the way in which a particular person uses language
