Coining

Apart from making love and reading Flaubert, nothing is more enjoyable than coining translations on Tatoeba.

And that means making the language relevant to youth today by coining new words and phrases.

Poetry admits of greater latitude than proſe, which with reſpect to coining, or, at leaſt, new-compounding words; yet, even here, this liberty ſhould be uſed with a ſparing hand.

Once we move into the Patristic period, there is undoubted evidence for new coinings of words (particularly compounds) as a response to the needs of the theological debates which occurred.

Coinings or neologisms are words that have recently been created. […] True coinings, which are completely new words, are rather rare relative to the vast number of words we create by means of the other word formation processes.