nonce word

English

Etymology

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

Noun

Examples
Sometimes I feel quite CERTAIN there's a JERTAIN in my CURTAIN. (Dr. Seuss)

nonce word (plural nonce words)

1. (lexicography) A word invented for the occasion; especially to create alliteration or a rhyme.

   Synonyms: nonce, occasionalism, contrivance, logatome, pseudoword

   Hypernym: protologism

See also

• 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

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

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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