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Euroclone en · NOUN

Etymology

From Euro- + clone.

Meanings

  1. (derogatory) Any international auxiliary language based on Romance and/or Germanic words.
    • I've had some regularized euroclones, simplifications of spelling or grammar projects (in dead/hyberning^([sic]) phase), my other two live projects are experimental. All exoticness that could be derived from this as longer^([sic]) as I do not want another euroclone. 1998 September 25, Carlos Eugenio Thompson Pinzón <cthompso@alpha.telecom-co.net>, “Re: Lunatic Survey”, in Conlang mailing list, via listserv.brown.edu:

Forms

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Euroclones Number=Plur lexicographic