Definizione monolingua

coining

coining

1. Present participle of coin.

coining (countable and uncountable; plural coinings)

1. (uncountable) A form of alternative medicine from Southeast Asia where a coin is rubbed vigorously on a patients oiled skin.
2. (countable, linguistics) A newly created word or phrase
   • 1783, Hugh Blair, George Edward Griffiths editor, The Monthly Review^[1], volume 68, Art. V. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres., page 499:

     Poetry admits of greater latitude than pro?e, which with re?pect to coining, or, at lea?t, new-compounding words; yet, even here, this liberty ?hould be u?ed with a ?paring hand.

   • 1989, Horsley, G.H.R., “The Greek Documentary Evidence and NT Lexical Study: Some Soundings”, in New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity^[2], volume 5, ISBN 9780858376366, page 77:

     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.

   • 2009, Kristin Denham, Anne Lobeck, “Morphological Typology and Word Formation”, in Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction^[3], ISBN 9781413015898, page 194:

     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.

Definizione dizionario coining

Altri significati:

Present participle of coin.

A form of alternative medicine from Southeast Asia where a coin is rubbed vigorously on a patient's oiled skin.