Etymology

paleologism

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Today it means: A word or phrase that was coined in the distant past, often now obscured or offensive, or if recently used: possibly having a definition or implication different from that of any earlier usage. Full definition →

Ancient Greek παλαιός
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromλόγος“word”
  2. Ancient Greek · derived fromπαλαιός“old”
  3. English todaypaleologism

From paleo-, from Ancient Greek παλαιός (palaiós, “old”), + Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, “word”) + -ism.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekπαλαιός all →

paleo-paleocrystic

Ancient Greekλόγος all →

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