Hypertext Webster Gateway: "neo"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Neo- \Ne"o-\ [Gr. ? youthful, new. See {New}.]
A prefix meaning new, recent, late; and in chemistry
designating specifically that variety of metameric
hydrocarbons which, when the name was applied, had been
recently classified, and in which at least one carbon atom in
connected directly with four other carbon atoms; --
contrasted with normal and iso-; as, neopentane; the
neoparaffins. Also used adjectively.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

neo
adj : (used as a combining form) recent or new; "`neo' is a
combining form in words like `neocolonialism'"


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