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s | coining |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a verb coining is

.

As a noun coining is

(uncountable) a form of alternative medicine from southeast asia where a coin is rubbed vigorously on a patient's oiled skin.

s

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    coining

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • (uncountable) A form of alternative medicine from Southeast Asia where a coin is rubbed vigorously on a patient's oiled skin.
  • (countable, linguistics) A newly created word or phrase
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=1783 , author=Hugh Blair , editor=George Edward Griffiths , title=The Monthly Review , volume=68 , section=Art. V. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. citation , page= 499 , passage=Poetry admits of greater latitude than pro?e, which with re?pect to coining , or, at lea?t, new-compounding words; yet, even here, this liberty ?hould be u?ed with a ?paring hand. }}
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=1989 , author=Horsley, G.H.R. , title=New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity , volume=5 , chapter=The Greek Documentary Evidence and NT Lexical Study: Some Soundings citation , isbn=9780858376366 , page=77 , passage=Once we move into the Patristic period, there is undoubted evidence for new coinings of words (particularly compounds) as a response to the needs of the theological debates which occurred.}}
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year= 2009 , author=Kristin Denham, Anne Lobeck , title=Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction , chapter=Morphological Typology and Word Formation citation , isbn=9781413015898 , page= 194 , passage=Coinings' or neologisms are words that have recently been created. [...] True ' coinings , which are completely new words, are rather rare relative to the vast number of words we create by means of the other word formation processes.}}

    Synonyms

    * (newly created word) neologism