semi-learned borrowing noun1 •A word or other linguistic form borrowed from a classical language into a later one, but partly reshaped based on later sound changes or by analogy with inherited words in the language. These words occur, for example, in the Romance and the Indo-Aryan languages.Canónigo 'canon' , a semi-learned borrowing from L. canonicus, still shows the suffix -icus with almost no change. — 1960 formssemi-learned borrowings
