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paleologism
noun; derivation
Literally, “old word”; a word that has existed in a language for a long period of time.
Etymology : Concatenation of morpheme “paleo” meaning “old” with morpheme “log” meaning “word, speech” with postfix “-ism”.
Source : Lecture
Last modified: 10 June 2008