loan coinage

English

Etymology

loan + coinage

Noun

loan coinage (plural loan coinages)

  1. A new lexeme – by native means – for an importation, that latter is any word formally containing foreign elements.
    Hypernym: substitution
    Hyponyms: loan formation, loan rendering / loan rendition, loan translation, loan creation
    Coordinate term: semantic loan

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