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Neoteric

//niːə(ʊ)ˈtɛɹɪk// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Modern, new-fangled. not-comparable

    "Among our neoteric verbs, those in -ize are exceedingly numerous."

  2. 2
    New; recent. not-comparable

    "Should it all come crashing in on us . . . will there be enough luddites, whose hands remember, to free us from the chains of neoteric technology?"

Noun
  1. 1
    A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer).

    "Galen himself writes promiscuously of them both by reason of their affinity; but most of our neoterics do handle them apart, whom I will follow in this treatise."

  2. 2
    Someone with new or modern ideas.
  3. 3
    any poet who belonged to the neoterics, a series of avant-garde Latin poets who wrote in the 1st century BC such as Catullus, Helvius Cinna, Publius Valerius Cato, Marcus Furius Bibaculus and Quintus Cornificius. historical

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Late Latin neotericus, from Hellenistic Greek νεωτερικός (neōterikós), from comparative of Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”).

Etymology 2

From Late Latin neotericus, from Hellenistic Greek νεωτερικός (neōterikós), from comparative of Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”).

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