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  2. Retronym - Wikipedia

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    The term retronym, a neologism composed of the combining forms retro-(from Latin retro, [3] "before") + -nym (from Greek ónoma, "name"), was coined by Frank Mankiewicz in 1980 and popularized by William Safire in The New York Times Magazine.

  3. List of retronyms - Wikipedia

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    However, the word "One" doesn't always refer to version 1 of a product, such as in Xbox One. Freebase nicotine The liquid, if containing nicotine, that is vaporised by electronic cigarettes with regular use. Nicotine strength levels would typically be measured and sold in mg/ml.

  4. Retro style - Wikipedia

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    Before the word retro came into use in the 1970s, the practice of adopting old styles for new designs was already common. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, designers borrowed from the past, for example, classicistic style. [3]

  5. How to Use Retro and Vintage Decor in Your Home - AOL

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    Here's the difference between retro and vintage, according to design experts. Although their definitions can blur together, there are some clear variations. Here's the difference between retro and ...

  6. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    retro-backward, behind Latin retro: retroversion, retroverted rhabd(o)-rod shaped, striated Greek ῥᾰ́βδος (rhábdos), wand, stick, stripe rhabdomyolysis: rhachi(o)-spine: Greek ῥάχις (rhákhis), spine or backbone rachial, rachialgia, rachidian, rachiopathy rhin(o)-of or pertaining to the nose Greek ῥίς, ῥῑνο-(rhís ...

  7. List of text-based computer games - Wikipedia

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    The following list of text-based games is not to be considered an authoritative, comprehensive listing of all such games; rather, it is intended to represent a wide range of game styles and genres presented using the text mode display and their evolution across a long period.

  8. Retrofuturism - Wikipedia

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    The word retrofuturism is formed by the addition of the prefix "retro" from the Latin language, which gives the meaning of "backwards" to the word "future", a word also originating from Latin. According to the Oxford English Dictionary , an early use of the term appears in a Bloomingdales advertisement in a 1983 issue of The New York Times .

  9. English prefix - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the word do, consisting of a single morpheme, is a verb, as is the word redo, which consists of the prefix re-and the base root do. However, there are a few prefixes in English that are class-changing in that the word resulting after prefixation belongs to a lexical category that is different from the lexical category of the base.