one's personal way of using a language, 1948, from idio- "one's own, personal" + second element abstracted from dialect. Idioglottic (1888) has a sense "using words invented in one's mind" (from Greek glotta/glossa "tongue").
ides
idio-
idiocrasy
idiocy
idiolatry
idiolect
idiom
idiomatic
idiopathy
idiosyncrasy
idiosyncratic