neoteric
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英 /niːə(ʊ)ˈtɛɹɪk/
英文释义
名词 n.
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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.
- Someone with new or modern ideas.
- 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.
形容词 adj.
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Modern, new-fangled.
— Among our neoteric verbs, those in -ize are exceedingly numerous.
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New; recent.
— 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?
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词源
词源 1
From Late Latin neotericus, from Hellenistic Greek νεωτερικός (neōterikós), from comparative of Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”).
词源 2
From Late Latin neotericus, from Hellenistic Greek νεωτερικός (neōterikós), from comparative of Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”).
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