heteroclite

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See also: hétéroclite

English

Etymology

From Late Latin heteroclitus, from Ancient Greek ἑτερόκλιτος (heteróklitos), from ἕτερος (héteros, “other, another, different”) + κλίνω (klínō, “lean, incline”), the latter from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhɛtəɹəʊklaɪt/

Adjective

heteroclite (comparative more heteroclite, superlative most heteroclite)

(grammar) Irregularly declined or inflected.
(dated) Deviating from the ordinary rule; eccentric, abnormal.
- 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin, published 2003, page 24:
  he was, on the contrary, as mercurial and sublimated a composition, […] as heteroclite a creature in all his declensions; […] with as much life and whim, and gaité de cœur about him, as the kindliest climate could have engendered and put together.
- 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XLVIII, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 281:
  Nor could I have dreamed the heteroclite crew-men I had met aboard Tzadkiel's ship […]

Translations

eccentric, abnormal

Bulgarian: анормален (bg) m (anormalen)
French: anormal (fr), hétéroclite (fr)
German: Heteroklit m
Portuguese: heteróclito (pt)
Spanish: heteróclito (es)

irregularly declined

Bulgarian: неправилен (bg) (nepravilen)
French: hétéroclite (fr)

See also

eclectic

Noun

heteroclite (plural heteroclites)

(grammar) An irregularly declined or inflected word.
(linguistics) A word whose etymological roots come from distinct, different languages or language groups.
A person who is unconventional; a maverick.

Synonyms

(unconventional person): free spirit, individualist, nonconformist; see also Thesaurus:maverick

Related terms

heteroclitic

Further reading

“heteroclite”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “heteroclite, a. and n.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

heterotelic

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /he.teˈro.kli.te/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.teˈro.kli.te/,

Adjective

heteroclite

vocative masculine singular of heteroclitus

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