'''Steampunk''' (indecl. f., [[portmanteauverbum compositum]] Anglicum ex ''steam'', vapor + ''-punk'', suffixum ex novo verbo Anglico ''cyberpunk'' quod animum "tutemet age" et circumiectos immundos periculososque probabiliter significat<ref>{{cite web |url=http://theinternetcrashed.com/2010/08/the-punk-in-cyberpunk |title=The "punk" in Cyberpunk |author=Psychochild |date=13 Aug 2010 |accessdate=26 Nov 2010 |work=The Internet Crashed}}</ref>) est subvarietas [[Mythistoriae rerum futurarum|mythistoriarum rerum futurarum]], [[historia alternata|historiae alternatae]], et [[Mythistoriae coniecturalum|mythistoriarum coniecturalum]] quae in decenniis 198 et 199 orta est.<ref name="Clute-Grant">{{cite book |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Clute |editor1-link=John Clute |editor2-first=John |editor2-last=Grant |editor2-link=John Grant |others=Contributing editors: Mike Ashley, Roz Kaveney, David Langford, Ron Tiner |title=The Encyclopedia of Fantasy |edition=Rev. |year=1999 |month=February |origyear=First published 1997 |publisher=St. Martin's Griffin |location=New York |isbn=978-0-312-19869-8 |page= |pages=895–896 |chapter=Steampunk |quote=STEAMPUNK A term applied more to [[Mythistoriae rerum futurarum|science fiction]] than to fantasy, though some tales described as steampunk do cross genres. ... Steampunk, on the other hand, can be best described as technofantasy that is based, sometimes quite remotely, upon technological [[anachronismus|anachronism]]. |ref=Clute-Grant}}</ref> Diserte, steampunk in saeculo vel universa fiat in quo [[machina vaporaria|vis vaporis]] etiamnunc adhibitur — fere saeculo 19 et [[saeculum Victorianum|saeculo Victoriano]] in [[Britannia]] — et quae proprietates praeclarae mythistoriarum rerum futurarum aut mythistoriarum phantasiarum habet.
