neoterm
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]neoterm (plural neoterms)
- (linguistics) A newly coined scientific or technical term.
- 2024 March, Jeffrey Brent Frazier, A Corpus-Based Theory and Lexicographic Process for the Inclusion of Neologisms, Archaisms and Foreign Loanwords in Lexicons of Q'eqchi' Mayan[1] (thesis), Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University, archived from the original on 2024-06-12, page 37:
- The process by which a neoterm becomes transformed into a simple neologism in the general language is called determinologization, and occurs when there is a context shift in which the term undergoes a loss of its specialized nature.