coinage
n.a new word or phrase that someone has recently invented. It can also mean the metal coins used as money in a country.
n.the invention of a new word or phrase; alternatively, the system of metal currency in use within a specific economy. Often refers to the first instance of a term being used in literature or speech.
“The word 'blog' is a relatively recent coinage.”
“Shakespeare is credited with the coinage of hundreds of English words that are still in common use today.”
“While some linguistic innovations are forgotten within weeks, a successful coinage fills a specific conceptual gap and eventually becomes indistinguishable from the established lexicon.”
Uncountable when referring to the general system of coins; countable when referring to specific invented words.
Inherited from Middle English coynage, from Old French coignage, from coignier. By surface analysis, coin + -age.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.