But the obsolescence of the inkwell transformed inkhorn itself into an inkhorn term.
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The idea dates at least to the inkhorn term controversy of the 16th and 17th centuries.
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He was also opposed to " inkhorn terms " borrowings and coinages from Greek and Latin which he found affected.
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In Europe this usually meant borrowings from Latin and coinages were particularly highlighted ( see classical compounds especially ), though this has sometimes been decried as pretentious, these coinages being criticized as inkhorn terms.
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These word types are often known as " neo-classical " ( or " neo-Latin " ) words and are often found in academic learned vocabulary domains ( such as in science fields ), as well as in inkhorn terms coined in the 17th and 18th centuries.