neoteric
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EtymologyEdit
From Late Latin neotericus, from Hellenistic Greek νεωτερικός (neōterikós), from comparative of Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”).
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AdjectiveEdit
neoteric (not comparable)
- Modern, new-fangled.
- 1873, Fitzedward Hall, Modern English, page 294
- Among our neoteric verbs, those in -ize are exceedingly numerous.
- 1873, Fitzedward Hall, Modern English, page 294
- New; recent.
NounEdit
neoteric (plural neoterics)
- A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer).
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970:, 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.
- Someone with new or modern ideas.
- (historical) any poet who belonged to the neoterics, a series of avant-garde Latin poets who wrote in the 1st century BC such as Catullus, Helvius Cinna, Publius Valerius Cato, Marcus Furius Bibaculus and Quintus Cornificius.