Etymology

geofiction

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Today it means: The conception and creation of a fictional cartographic design that is the setting of a work of fiction or of one's imagination; worldbuilding. Full definition →

English fiction ← Middle English ficcioun ← Old French ficcion
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  1. Proto-Hellenic*gaya
  2. Ancient Greekγαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip.
  3. Ancient Greekγῆ (gê)
  4. Ancient Greekγεω- (geō-)
  5. Englishgeo-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeyǵʰ-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*dʰinéǵʰti
  8. Proto-Italic*θingō
  9. Proto-Italic*fingō
  10. Latinfingō
  11. Latinfictiō
  12. Old Frenchficcion
  13. Middle Englishficcioun
  14. Englishfiction
  15. English todaygeofiction

From geo- + fiction. Ostensibly coined by future members of the Dutch Geofiction Association (founded 1984).

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