From French (1772), from Proto-Indo-European '*new-os' ("new"), from PIE *newo- ("new").
A newly coined word or expression, or a new meaning given to an existing word.
From French 'néologisme,' from Greek 'néos' (νέος, new, young) and 'lógos' (λόγος, word, speech, reason). Coined during the French Enlightenment when writers were self-consciously creating new vocabulary for new ideas. The word was initially pejorative — French purists used it to condemn the introduction of new words as a corruption of the language. In English too, 'neologism' carried