neo
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NounEdit
neo (plural neos)
- (dated, fandom slang, science fiction) A newcomer to science fiction; a fan who is extremely new and inexperienced with the genre; a beginner.
- 1964 April 2, Ron, Bennett, Skyrack[1], number 65:
- Ken Bulmer pointed out that the attitude of a fan who had read much sf is different from that of a neo who is reading sf for the first time.
- 1976 August 25, Maule, Ian, Checkpoint[2], number 72:
- This fabulous fannish cover illustrated the three stages of fandom: the neo, the trufan, and the BNF.
- 1996 November 3, Faulder, Richard J., Gegenschein[3], number 80:
- Edwina, and neofen of her generation (this is not a criticism - everyone starts out as a neo), being new to sffandom, and not a member of faandom, would not have noticed this.
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ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin naevus (“mole, birthmark”)
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- Rhymes: -ɛo
NounEdit
neo m (plural nei)
- mole (on skin)
- beauty spot
- flaw, defect
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neo m (invariable)
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LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Italic *nēō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁-.
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neō (present infinitive nēre, perfect active nēvī, supine nētum); second conjugation
- (transitive) I spin; weave, interlace, entwine.
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neō
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ReferencesEdit
- neo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- neo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- neo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Old EnglishEdit
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EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *nawiz, *nawaz (“corpse”), from Proto-Indo-European *nāw- (“the deceased, corpse”).
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nēo n
- a corpse
DeclensionEdit
Declension of neo (strong wa-stem)
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neo
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neo
- Alternative form of no.
VietnameseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Vietic *tʃ-rn-ɛːw, an *-rn- (instrumental derivative) infixed form of Proto-Vietic *tʃɛːw, whence Modern Vietnamese xeo. Related to chèo (“oar”), derived from a differently infixed form.
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neo
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