inkhorn term in English
fairly unknown word (often of Latin or Greek origin) that is used in an ostentatious way to display one's scholarly knowledge
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1. As a descendant of Latin concomitari ("to accompany") and ultimately of "comes," the Latin word for companion, "Concomitant" may well have been initially derided as an ostentatious inkhorn term.