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Protologism

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1 English

1.1 Etymology
1.2 Noun
1.3 Note

2 See Also

English

Etymology

Coined by Mikhail Epstein (and adopted by the Wiktionary community) from Greek protos, first + Greek logos, word, by analogy with prototype and neologism.

Noun

protologism

  1. (Wiktionary Jargon) A newly-created word given a definition in the hope that it will be used in that sense.
  2. (Wiktionary Jargon) A recently-created word in narrow use but not yet in general use.

Note

Please do not create articles for protologisms you would like to see in use. Instead, please add them to Wiktionary:List of protologisms.

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