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By: Petellius

Petellius — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:40:59 +0000

Oh. Well, both astro- and cosmo- are Greek as well, but I suppose we could make up Latinate versions too: stellanaut and mundinaut, or something like that. But it starts to get a little silly.

“Neanderthal” comes to mind as a Greco-German compound, but its origin is a bit inorganic. There was a trend among the Germans in the Early Modern Period to use Grecizing versions of their surnames. So there is a valley in western Germany named after Joachim Neumann called the Neanderthal (German Neu-mann = Greek Ne-ander; “thal” is German for “valley”). The Neanderthal hominid is named after the valley.

I can’t think of any Hebraeo-Latin compounds offhand. It doesn’t seem too likely, but I might be overlooking something.

By: Pastor Spomer

Pastor Spomer — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:05:42 +0000

“nautes” is Greek for “sailor”
I was thinking of “astronaut” as oppose to “cosmonaut”. But you right it’s to late now. By the way, what about other hybrids? German/Greek, Hebrew/Latin?

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admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:19:36 +0000

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By: Paul Adams

Paul Adams — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:07:43 +0000

I have to agree with Petellius–what ordinary mortal could not?–but I like the T-shirt. Where do I buy one?

By: Petellius

Petellius — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:54:10 +0000

“nautes” is Greek for “sailor”

By the way, I hope that I’m not sounding too much like a twit – I’m mostly joking about my insistence here. Hybrid Greco-Latin compounds are too well established in English to bother with now.

television
hypertext
neonatal
paleoconservative
antisocial
paramilitary
genocide
lots of things beginning in crypto-, neo-, paleo-, anti-, ktl.

(Though I do at times wonder if it’s necessary to hybridize when there is a perfectly good non-hybrid option available.)

By: Pastor Spomer

Pastor Spomer — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:15:46 +0000

Astronaut?