neoteric

noun /niːə(ʊ)ˈtɛɹɪk/

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.

   historical

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry neoteric (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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