Meaning

1 senses
  1. (neologism)A newly coined word or phrase defined in the hope that it will become common; a recently created term possibly in narrow use but not yet acknowledged.

    Protologismus

    протологи́змprotologízm

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a newly coined word or phrase defined in the hope that it will become common:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a newly coined word or phrase defined in the hope that it will become common:

Origin

Coined by Mikhail Epstein in 2003, from Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”) + Ancient G

Coined by Mikhail Epstein in 2003, from Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”) + Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, “word”) + -ism, by analogy with prototype and neologism.

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Forms

plural: protologisms
Singularprotologism
Pluralprotologisms

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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