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3:06am
January 20, 2015
Interesting foreign word of the day. (French this time.)
I first came across it in some kind of Google search I don’t even remember what word I was looking to translate:
la bizarrerie
Here are the definiitons they gave at first, before I went to Wiktionary:
quirk, strangeness, eccentricity, peculiarity, oddness, object
And here is what i got when I went to Wiktionary (first definitions are French, second are English, butthey seem to mean the same thing):
la bizarrerie (noun)
bizarrerie f (plural bizarreries)
- bizarreness
- bizarrerie; something which is bizarre
It turns out to have made it into English as a loan word (why this surprises me is anyone’s guess, but in all my life I’ve never seen it ued in English:
English
Etymology
Borrowing from French bizarrerie.
Pronunciation[edit]
(UK) IPA(key): /bɪˈzɑːɹəɹi/
Noun
bizarrerie (plural bizarreries)
1. The state or measure of being bizarre.
2. A bizarre thing.
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