transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈi-dē-əm ]
noun
Etymology: Middle French & Late Latin; Middle French idiome, from Late Latin idioma individual peculiarity of language, from Greek idiōmat-, idiōma, from idiousthai to appropriate, from idios
Date: 1588
1.
a. : the language peculiar to a people or to a district, community, or class : dialect
b. : the syntactical, grammatical, or structural form peculiar to a language
2. : an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either grammatically (as no, it wasn't me ) or in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (as Monday week for “the Monday a week after next Monday”)
3. : a style or form of artistic expression that is characteristic of an individual, a period or movement, or a medium or instrument
the modern jazz idiom
broadly : manner , style
a new culinary idiom