Date Compiled: 2026-04-12

Stylistic Depreciation¶

Type: Linguistic concept

The process by which loanwords lose prestige connotation and become marked as colloquial or pejorative. In Romanian, Greek borrowings shifted after the Phanariot period ended (1821).

See also: phanariot-period, turkisms, bilingualism-balkan

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