## Meanings
1. A fixed expression whose meaning can't be guessed from its individual words.
2. The way of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language.
3. The characteristic style of an artist, school, or movement.

## Examples
- The English language is full of colorful idioms like "break the ice."
- He spoke grammatically, but not always in natural English idiom.
- The painting is clearly in the idiom of the Impressionists.

## Synonyms
- expression
- idiotism
- locution
- phrase

## Derived Forms
- bromidiom
- idiomacy
- idiomatic
- idiomatical
- idiomatically
- idiomaticize
- idiomless

## Related Forms
- idiolect
- idiosyncratic
- idiot

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: idiome
- Root: ἰδίωμα

## Etymology
From Middle French idiome, and its source, Late Latin idioma, from Ancient Greek ἰδίωμα (idíōma, “a peculiarity, property, a peculiar phraseology, idiom”), from ἰδιοῦσθαι (idioûsthai, “to make one's own, appropriate to oneself”), from ἴδιος (ídios, “one's own, pertaining to oneself, private, personal, peculiar, separate”). By surface analysis, idi- + -om.

## AI Etymology
Idiom comes from Middle French idiome, and its source, Late Latin idioma, from Ancient Greek ἰδίωμα (idíōma, “a peculiarity, property, a peculiar phraseology, idiom”), from ἰδιοῦσθαι (idioûsthai, “to make one's own, appropriate to oneself”), from ἴδιος (ídios, “one's own, pertaining to oneself, private, personal, peculiar, separate”). By surface analysis, idi- + -om. The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern nominal form is built from the named base and affix. In current use, the main senses are “A fixed expression whose meaning can't be guessed from its individual words” and “The way of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language”.

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