neoteric
Pronunciation: /niːə(ʊ)ˈtɛɹɪk/
The English word “neoteric” has 5 meanings listed here.
adjective
noun
- A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer).
- Someone with new or modern ideas.
- any poet who belonged to the neoterics, a series of avant-garde Latin poets who wrote in the 1st century BC such as Catullus, Helvius Cinna, Publius Valerius Cato, Marcus Furius Bibaculus and Quintus Cornificius.
Etymology
From Late Latin neotericus, from Hellenistic Greek νεωτερικός (neōterikós), from comparative of Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”).
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