coinage

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English coynage, from Old French coignage, from coignier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɪnɪd͡ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪnɪdʒ

Noun

coinage (countable and uncountable, plural coinages)

1. The process of coining money.
2. (uncountable) Coins taken collectively; currency.
   • 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 15:

     The Minoan age had not only an elaborate system of weights, but the first beginnings of a coinage.

3. (uncountable, lexicography) The creation of new words, neologizing.
   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎^[1], page 13:

     Caution needs to be exercised in regards to claims of coinage as the data contained a number of examples of writers professing the invention of a term that had actually been in existence for many years.

4. (countable, lexicography) Something which has been made or invented, especially a coined word; a neologism.
   • 2021, Thomas Kullmann and Dirk Siepmann, Tolkien as a Literary Artist: Exploring Rhetoric, Language and Style in The Lord of the Rings, Palgrave-Macmillan 2021

     Most importantly perhaps, it is evident that the impression of archaicity which any reader will experience on reading The Lord of the Rings is partly due to three simple lexical causes: the “overuse” of words borrowed from nineteenth-century fiction (e.g. yonder, journey [v], topmost), the avoidance of words associated with the modern world and the comparatively dense use of new coinages, unusual grammatical patterns, rare or obsolescent words.

5. The process of creating something new.
   • 1826, [Mary Shelley], The Last Man. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     The head will serve for my new coinage, and be an omen to all dutiful subjects of my future success.

Derived terms

• free coinage
• loan coinage

Translations

process of coining money

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貨幣制度／货币制度 (huòbì zhìdù)

• Finnish: rahan lyöminen
• French: frappe (fr) f (de la monnaie)
• German: Münzprägung (de) f
• Italian: conio (it) m
• Japanese: 貨幣鋳造 (かへいちゅうぞう, kahei chūzō)
• Middle English: coynage
• Portuguese: cunhagem f
• Russian: чека́нка (ru) f (čekánka) (монет)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

currency — see currency

neologizing — see neologize

neologism — see neologism

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