English
scientifiction
Blend of scientific + fiction.
A blend of scientific + fiction
Latin fingō ‘to form, devise, feign’
Latin fictiō ‘a making; a feigning’
Old French ficcion ‘dissimulation, invention’
Middle English ficcioun ‘invention, fabrication’
English fiction
The story
Coined by Hugo Gernsback in 1916.
Today it means
noun Science fiction.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / scientifiction