The Dr. Ivan Šreter Award () is an annual Croatian linguistics award for the best Croatian language word coined.
The award is named after Dr. Ivan Šreter (1951–1991), a Croatian physician who was sentenced to jail time in Communist Yugoslavia in 1987 for choosing to use the distinct Croatian umirovljeni časnik to refer to his patient as a retired officer, rather than using penzionisani oficir. During the Croatian War of Independence he was taken captive by Serb troops and presumably killed, although his remains have not been found .
The contest and the award was initially designed by Stjepan Babić, and it has been organized by the literary magazine Jezik since 1993.
Winners 1993 - László Bulcsú for suosnik, as a replacement for the term koaksijalni kabel (Eng: coaxial cable) 1998 - straničnikStraničnici i oni koji to nisu as a replacement for bookmark 2006 - Nada Arar-Premužić for uspornik,Dr. Ivan Šreter Foundation and Jezik Magazine as a replacement for the term ležeći policajac (Eng: speed bump) 2007 - Vilim Pantlik for naplatnica"Naplatnica" best new Croatian word as a replacement for naplatna kućica (Eng: tollbooth) 2009 - Drago Štambuk for proširnica,Izabrane tri najbolje riječi od predloženih 4000 as a replacement for žilni potporanj (Eng: stent) 2010 - Vinko Vukadin for ispraznicaIspraznica, osjećajnik i parkomat najbolje nove hrvatske riječi as a replacement for floskula (Eng: platitude) 2011 - Šandor Dembitz for zatipak'Zatipak' je najbolja nova hrvatska riječ as a replacement for tipfeler (Eng: typo) 2018 - Lidija Stević Brtan for zapozorjeDobili smo tri nove hrvatske riječi, a pobjedu je odnijela riječ ‘zapozorje’ as a replacement for backstage 2020 - Drago Štambuk and Karlo Kulaš for dišnikNajbolje nove hrvatske riječi: Znate li što su dišnik, kihobran i rukozborac? as a replacement for respirator 2023: Tomislav Meštrović and Ognjen Ožegić for prestrujnik as a replacement for adapter or strujni adapter (Eng: power adapter) Leonardo Štrac and Izabela Štrac for Šećerice as a replacement for sugarcane Marko Bukna and Martina Pehar for bakroza as a replacement for Wilson's disease 2024: Plovopis (Sailing story – a literary or other work describing a journey by ship or vessel, by Dubravko Merlić), čvornik ( "hub", or central point of connection, by Martina Šarić), uglednina (goodwill (accounting), by Juraj Borić)Plovopis, čvornik i uglednina - tri nove riječi koje će obogatiti hrvatski jezik 2025: presudnik ("Video assistant referee", by Josipa Curić), dohvatnica ("widget", - a digital tool used to retrieve and display information such as weather forecasts or news", by Antonio Zandona), narubno (an adverb denoting a way of opening a window "on the edge" or "on the corner", by Majda Joha) U Lipiku dodijeljena Nagrada „Dr. Ivan Šreter“, među nagrađenima i Lipičanin Antonio Zandona
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