Retronym

Meaning

Noun

●

In Linguistics:

A new

or

for an

or

whose

has become used for

or is

, or which did not

have a specific

.

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Origin

retronym

English

-onym

English

ὄνυμα

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

retro-

English

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