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Looking for a word meaning something like hyphenated compound
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I'm looking for a specific term, that means something like neologism, or compound word all in one.
But it's not a usual hyphenated compound term. It's the definition of a coined term that is refering to one thing, yet using two senses of this same one referent in the term; for example the term Hesperus-Vesper. - not a great example, but that's all I can think of. I know this has a word for it, but I can't remember what it is.
But it's not a usual hyphenated compound term. It's the definition of a coined term that is refering to one thing, yet using two senses of this same one referent in the term; for example the term Hesperus-Vesper. - not a great example, but that's all I can think of. I know this has a word for it, but I can't remember what it is.
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Ahh found it - appositional compound..! thanks anyway (-: I don't think I was explaning myself particularly well!
17:02 Thu 16th Aug 2012
It's not portmanteau, because there is no merging going on in the term; the two words in the one term are kept quite separate by the hyphen. The term "Hesperus-Vesper" referring to the Evening-Morning Star is the best example I can think of. The term I'm looking for is not the act of coining the term either, but the 'type' of term.
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