nonce word

English

Etymology

From for the nonce and word. Coined by James Murray, the influential first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Noun

nonce word (plural nonce words)

1. (lexicography) A word invented for the occasion.

Synonyms

• nonce
• occasionalism

 

Hypernyms

• protologism

Related terms

• non-word

Translations

word invented for the occasion

• Arabic: لَفْظُ مُنَاسَبَة (ar) m (lafẓu munāsaba)
• Czech: okazionalizmus (cs) m, hapax m
• Dutch: hapax (nl) m
• Estonian: juhusõna, okasionaalsõna
• Finnish: tilapäismuodoste, keksitty sana
• French: mot ad hoc (fr) m, hapax (fr) m
• German: Ad-hoc-Bildung (de) f, Ad-hoc-Wortbildung f Augenblicksbildung (de) f, Gelegenheitsbildung (de) f, okkasionelle Bildung f, Okkasionalismus (de) m
• Greek: λεξιπλασία (el) f (lexiplasía)
• Hungarian: alkalmi/egyedi szó/szóalkotás, alkalmilag alkotott szó
• Italian: occasionalismo (it) m
• Latvian: okazionālisms m, okazionālisms m
• Norwegian: engangsord n
• Polish: okazjonalizm m
• Portuguese: palavra ad hoc f
• Russian: окказионали́зм (ru) m (okkazionalízm), га́пакс (ru) m (gápaks)
• Spanish: expresión ad hoc f, palabro (es) m, hápax (es) m
• Swedish: tillfällig ordbildning c, tillfällighetsbildning c
• Turkish: özel sözcük

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Translations to be checked

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} ideíca

See also

• hapax legomenon (one attestation), dis legomenon (two attestations), tris legomenon (three attestations)
• Category:English nonce terms
• Category:Nonce terms by language

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