Comments on: What's a word meaning "having mixed Greek and Latin roots"?

Question: What's a word meaning "having mixed Greek and Latin roots"?

luftmensch — Sun, 06 May 2007 17:30:54 -0800

I need to find the word meaning "a word with mixed Latin and Greek roots." It's not just "hybrid word," but a word that specifically indicated Greek and Latin origins. I've had several people remark that they know it but can't think of it, and my search skills have failed thusfar.

By: aerotive

aerotive — Sun, 06 May 2007 17:43:23 -0800

Classical compound?

By: AwkwardPause

AwkwardPause — Sun, 06 May 2007 18:18:14 -0800

I've heard it referred to as a 'bastardism.'

By: micayetoca

micayetoca — Sun, 06 May 2007 18:23:09 -0800

In Spanish you say "grecolatino," though I search with that tetm and didn't find much. I only included it here 'cause it might help you remember the one you are looking for.

By: sanko

sanko — Sun, 06 May 2007 18:25:03 -0800

Greco-Roman hybrid? Just a guess, but googling that found this. I know that's not a single word, but it's the best I could come up with.

By: longsleeves

longsleeves — Sun, 06 May 2007 19:53:49 -0800

I searched for a full five minutes and I have concluded that this is your chance to coin a new word.

By: flabdablet

flabdablet — Sun, 06 May 2007 20:17:30 -0800

heteroradical?

By: jet_silver

jet_silver — Sun, 06 May 2007 20:43:11 -0800

Macaronic?

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Sun, 06 May 2007 22:52:32 -0800

I've heard words like that referred to as "chimeras," but that doesn't specifically denote the Greco-Roman sense ("Greco-Roman chimeras" might work, or you could go all meta on a lexochimera...)

By: scodger

scodger — Sun, 06 May 2007 23:30:00 -0800

No idea, but maybe you were thinking of this quote - "Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it."
C. P. Snow

By: Chrysostom

Chrysostom — Mon, 07 May 2007 08:52:12 -0800

The Tenser has written about this a few times, and he seems to call them "Greek-Latin hybrid compounds."

Unexciting, I guess, but there you have it.