A compound word based on Latin or Greek. A foreign compound word.
I seek a word with the meaning of “a (compound) word of Latin or Greek origin”, as in:
words are commonly used in scientific terminology.
What type of compound words would it be if the word itself was a Latin word? Can a Latin or Greek origin be stated as a single origin?
“The word you probably need is classical – b. gen.” Of, relating to, or characteristic of Greek or Roman antiquity. (OED sense 1b)
(Means=No)
What does everyone want to call a ‘neoclassical compound’? a compound where at least one of the components is a combining form, usually of Greek or Latin origin.
Such compounds figure prominently in scientific terminology, as well as in learned vocabulary generally: “astronaut”, pseudonym”, “psychology”.
What about the adjective’macaronic’? How does English work!
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