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 - straničnik as a replacement for bookmark 2006 - Nada Arar-Premužić for uspornik, as a replacement for the term ležeći policajac (Eng: speed bump) 2007 - Vilim Pantlik for naplatnica as a replacement for naplatna kućica (Eng: tollbooth) 2009 - Drago Štambuk for proširnica, as a replacement for žilni potporanj (Eng: stent) 2010 - Vinko Vukadin for ispraznica as a replacement for floskula (Eng: platitude) 2011 - Šandor Dembitz for zatipak as a replacement for tipfeler (Eng: typo) 2018 - Lidija Stević Brtan for zapozorje as a replacement for backstage 2020 - Drago Štambuk and Karlo Kulaš for dišnik as a replacement for respirator
