neoteric

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EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• neoterical

EtymologyEdit

From Late Latin neotericus, from Hellenistic Greek νεωτερικός (neōterikós), from comparative of Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”).

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /niːə(ʊ)ˈtɛɹɪk/

AdjectiveEdit

neoteric (not comparable)

1. Modern, new-fangled.
   • Fitzed. Hall

     Our neoteric verbs.

2. New; recent.
   • "Should it all come crashing in on us . . . will there be enough luddites, whose hands remember, to free us from the chains of neoteric technology?" — The Toronto Star, August 21, 1998
   • "A few words on the two neoteric terms, cybertext and ergodic, are in order." — Cybertext, 1997, Espen Aarseth.

NounEdit

neoteric (plural neoterics)

1. A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer).
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069:, Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.140:

     Galen himself writes promiscuously of them both by reason of their affinity; but most of our neoterics do handle them apart, whom I will follow in this treatise.

2. Someone with new or modern ideas.

Further readingEdit

• Dictionary.com's entry for neoteric.

AnagramsEdit

• erection