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heteroclite
[ het-er-uh-klahyt ]
adjective
- irregular or abnormal; anomalous.
- Grammar. irregular in inflection; having inflected forms belonging to more than one class of stems.
noun
- a person or thing that deviates from the ordinary rule or form.
- Grammar. a heteroclite word.
heteroclite
/ ˈ³óÉ›³ÙÉ™°ùəˌ°ì±ô²¹Éª³Ù /
adjective
- (esp of the form of a word) irregular or unusual
noun
- an irregularly formed word
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of heteroclite1
1570–80; < Middle French < Late Latin heteroclitus < Greek ³ó±ð³Ù±ð°ùó°ì±ô¾±³Ù´Ç²õ, equivalent to hetero- hetero- + -klitos, verbid of °ì±ôÄ«Ì²Ô±ð¾±²Ô to bend, inflect
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of heteroclite1
C16: from Late Latin heteroclitus declining irregularly, from Greek heteroklitos, from hetero- + klinein to bend, inflect
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Example Sentences
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Heterogeneous nouns may at the same time be heteroclites, as in case of the first two examples above.
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