[[Fasciculus:Kyle-cassidy-steampunk.jpg|thumb|Imago quae thema steampunk ostendit.]]
'''Steampunk''' (indecl. ''f.,'' [[verbum compositum]] [[lingua Anglica|Anglicum]] ex ''steam'' 'vapor' + ''-punk,'' suffixo ex novo verbo Anglico ''cyberpunk,'' quod animum 'tutemet age' et circumiecta immunda{{dubsig}}spurca periculosaque 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<!--Cur non solum varietas?--> [[Mythistoriae rerum futurarum|mythistoriarum rerum futurarum]], [[historia alternata|historiae alternatae]], et [[Mythistoriae coniecturalum|mythistoriarum coniecturalum]] quae in [[decennium 198|decenniis 198]] et [[decennium 199|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 quo [[machina vaporaria|vis vaporis]] etiamnunc adhibitur—fere [[saeculum 19|saeculo undevicensimo]] [[saeculum Victorianum|Victorianoque]] in [[Britanniarum Regnum|Britannia]]—et quae praeclarae mythistoriarum rerum futurarum vel mythistoriarum phantasiarum proprietates habet.
