Etymology

prelogism

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Today it means: A word that has more recognition than a protologism but less recognition than a neologism. Full definition →

Ancient Greek λόγος
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromλόγος“word”
  2. English todayprelogism

From pre- + Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, “word”) + -ism, by analogy with protologism and neologism.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekλόγος all →

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