neoteric

a. 现代的, 新近的, 新颖的 n. 现代人, 现代作家

发音

UK /niːə(ʊ)ˈtɛɹɪk/

neoterics 复数 neoterics

neoterical neoterick

1.

A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer).

Galen himself writes promiscuously of them both by reason of their affinity; but most of our neoterics do handle them apart, whom I will follow in this treatise.
2.

Someone with new or modern ideas.
3.

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.

历史

adj.

From Late Latin neotericus, from Hellenistic Greek νεωτερικός (neōterikós), from comparative of Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”).

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