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- noun A newly
coined word or phrase defined in the hope that it will become common; a recently created term possibly in narrow use but not yet acknowledged.
Etymologies
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Coined by Mikhail Epstein (and adopted by the Wiktionary community) from Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prōtos, "first") + λόγος (logos, "word"), by analogy with prototype and neologism.
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