Fromretro- +-onym; coined by Frank Mankiewicz[1] and popularized byWilliam Safire.[2][3]
retronym (pluralretronyms)
- (linguistics) A new word or phrase coined for an old object orconcept whose original name has become used for something else or is no longerunique, or which did not originally have a specific name.[from 1980s]
- Coordinate term:anachronym
1982 December 26,William Safire, “On Language: Watch what you say”, inNew York Times[4]:The phrase is aretronym, the term Frank Mankiewicz has coined to describe names of familiar objects or events that need a modifier to catch up to more modern objects: day baseball and natural turf are in the same category as analog watch.
2004, Geoff Nunberg,Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational Times,→ISBN, page239:You can get a good sense of the pace of change over the past century just by looking at theretronyms we've accumulated. New technologies have forced us to come up with terms likesteam locomotive,silent movie[…]
A new coinage for an old concept
- Armenian:please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian:ретроним(retronim)
- Catalan:please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:返璞詞 /返璞词
- Czech:please add this translation if you can
- Danish:retronym n
- Estonian:please add this translation if you can
- Finnish:retronyymi
- French:rétronyme (fr) m
- Georgian:please add this translation if you can
- German:Retronym n
- Greek:παλινώνυμο, αναβαπτιστής(palinónymo, anavaptistís)
- Hungarian:please add this translation if you can
- Icelandic:afturvirkt orð n
- Italian:retronimo m
- Japanese:再命名(saimeimei),レトロニム (ja)(retoronimu)
- Latvian:please add this translation if you can
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- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:retronym (no) n
- Nynorsk:retronym n
- Polish:retronim m
- Portuguese:retrónimo m(Portugal),retrônimo m(Brazil)
- Romanian:please add this translation if you can
- Russian:ретро́ним (ru) m(retrónim)
- Slovak:please add this translation if you can
- Spanish:retrónimo m
- Swedish:retronym (sv)
- Ukrainian:please add this translation if you can
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- ^Jeremy M. Brosowsky (March 2001), “Frankly Speaking”, inBusiness Forward[1], archived fromthe original on20 September 2002
- ^William Safire (26 December 1982), “On Language: Watch what you say”, inNew York Times[2]
- ^William Safire (7 January 2007), “On Language: Retronym”, inNew York Times[3], retrieved8 November 2017
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retronym n (singular definiteretronymet,plural indefiniteretronymer)
- (linguistics, rare)retronym
retro- +-onym
retronym c
- retronym
