Talk:Hybrid word

Awesoem page!
it is! ΤΕΡΡΑΣΙΔΙΩΣ (Ταλκ ) 12:00, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Heteroclite
Is heteroclite really an alternative term for this phenomenon? I've never encountered it before seeing it in Adhocracy. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 13:06, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Right or Wrong
Social Media is making a lot of noise that Hybrid words are "wrong". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.202.248.76 (talk) 02:50, 11 July 2015 (UTC)


 * As far as Greek + Latin hybrids in English, that battle was lost at least 75 years ago... AnonMoos (talk) 00:21, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Heterosexual
Because the Greek word ἕτερος is misspelled as έτερος (the apostrophe-like 'rough breathing' accent that represents the 'h' in 'hetero-' has been omitted), the link takes us to a page that Wikipedia says does not yet exist. But there is a perfectly good Wiktionary article on the correctly spelled ἕτερος. The same problem does not occur with 'Homosexual', where the 'rough breathing' in the Greek word ὁμός has not been omitted, so the link takes us to the correct Wiktionary page. Since I don't know how to create new links and don't want to do any damage, I mention it here in the hope that someone with the right technical knowledge can make the necessary changes. I've copied the correct spelling of ἕτερος straight to this comment from the Wiktionary page, so I hope it can be used here.213.127.210.95 (talk) 14:57, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Figuring it out would have been less effort than this thorough explanation! Links are very simple – all you need is a URL and the text you want to display :) I will change it now for you; thanks for noticing the issue. Elcalebo (talk) 19:23, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

Transgender?
Would transgender count? Trans- is from Latin (from Proto-Indo-European) and gender is from Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin (from Proto-Indo-European). Elcalebo (talk) 19:22, 10 February 2019 (UTC)


 * It might be "hybrid" according to some definitions, but it doesn't have the combination of Greek with Latin elements that traditionalists find most offensive. AnonMoos (talk) 00:23, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Hybridisms were formerly often considered to be barbarisms
I don't know if anyone is following this talk page, but I think this statement is based off confusion over barbarisms that resulted from misusing and misspelling Greek/Latin words, not that Greek/Latin hybrids were themselves barbarisms. I'll keep doing research but I might remove this if I can't find anything. Pyrrho the Skeptic (talk) 19:30, 12 July 2021 (UTC)