portmanteau
port‧man‧teau /pɔrtˈmæntoʊ, poʊrt-; ˌpɔrtmænˈtoʊ, ˌpoʊrt-/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[pawrt-man-toh, pohrt-; pawrt-man-toh, pohrt-] Pronunciation
–noun, plural -teaus, -teaux /-toʊz, -toʊ, -ˈtoʊz, -ˈtoʊ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[-tohz, -toh, -tohz, -toh] Chiefly British a case or bag to carry clothing in while traveling, esp. a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves.
port·man·teau (pôrt-mnt, prt-, pôrtmn-t, prt-) n. pl. port·man·teaus or port·man·teaux (-tz, -tz)
A large leather suitcase that opens into two hinged compartments.
[French portemanteau : porte-, from porter, to carry (from Old French. See port5) + manteau, cloak (from Old French mantel, from Latin mantellum).]
n 1: a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings; “`smog’ is a blend of `smoke’ and `fog’”; “`motel’ is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor’ and `hotel’”; “`brunch’ is a well-known portmanteau” [syn: blend, portmanteau word] 2: a large travelling bag made of stiff leather [syn: Gladstone, Gladstone bag]
WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University
A portmanteau (from 16th century French, plural portmanteaux) is a large travelling case made of leather. Originally designed with two sides with the hinge in between, one side to carry (porte) your coats (manteaux) and the other side for other items. The portmanteau could stand on end, so that the coats are hung vertically, and open up like a book to make a pair of mini-closets joined by hinges.
A portmanteau (plural: portmanteaux or portmanteaus) is a term in linguistics that refers to a word or morpheme that fuses two or more grammatical functions. A folk usage of portmanteau refers to a word that is formed by combining both sounds and meanings from two or more words (e.g. ‘animatronics’ from ‘animation’ and ‘electronics’). In linguistics, these folk portmanteaux are called blends. It can also be called a frankenword (incidentally, this is another example of a portmanteau). Typically, portmanteau words are neologisms.
The word was coined by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). In the book, Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice words from Jabberwocky, saying, “Well, slithy means lithe and slimy … You see it’s like a portmanteau— there are two meanings packed up into one word.”
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