different between prescriptivist vs sumpsimus

English

Etymology

prescriptive +? -ist

Noun

prescriptivist (plural prescriptivists)

1. Someone who lays down rules regarding language usage, or who believes that traditional norms of language usage should be upheld.

Synonyms

• prescriptionist

Antonyms

• descriptionist
• descriptivist

Related terms

• prescribe
• prescriptivism
• prescriptivistic

See also

• grammarian

Adjective

prescriptivist (comparative more prescriptivist, superlative most prescriptivist)

1. Having a tendency to prescribe.

Synonyms

• prescriptionist
• prescriptionistic
• prescriptivistic

Antonyms

• descriptionist
• descriptionistic
• descriptivist
• descriptivistic

Related terms

• prescribe
• prescriptivism
• prescriptivistic

English

Etymology

From Latin sumpsimus, c. 1540–50

Noun

sumpsimus

1. Adherence to or persistence in using a strictly correct term in rejection of a more common (but technically incorrect) form.
   • c. 1575, Edward Underhill, Autobiography, John Nichols (ed.)

     I'll not change my old mumpsimus for your new sumpsimus!

   • 1545, {{|Henry VIII of England}}, a speech

     Some be too stiff in their old mumpsimus, others be too busy and curious in their sumpsimus.

2. A person obstinate or zealous about such correctness; a pedant.

Antonyms

• mumpsimus

See also

• prescriptivist

Latin

Verb

s?mpsimus

1. first-person plural perfect active indicative of s?m?