See heteroclite in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*ḱley-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "LL.",
"3": "heteroclitus"
},
"expansion": "Late Latin heteroclitus",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "ἑτερόκλιτος"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ἑτερόκλιτος (heteróklitos)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*ḱley-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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-.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more heteroclite",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most heteroclite",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "heteroclite (comparative more heteroclite, superlative most heteroclite)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "eclectic"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Grammar",
"orig": "en:Grammar",
"parents": [
"Linguistics",
"Language",
"Social sciences",
"Communication",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "39 15 23 19 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "52 9 28 8 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "46 15 23 12 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "48 17 25 8 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "44 10 19 15 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "51 9 23 12 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "50 11 21 12 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "38 10 17 12 23",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "53 10 23 11 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Irregularly declined or inflected."
],
"id": "en-heteroclite-en-adj-W07kP4g3",
"links": [
[
"grammar",
"grammar"
],
[
"Irregularly",
"irregular"
],
[
"decline",
"decline"
],
[
"inflect",
"inflect"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(grammar) Irregularly declined or inflected."
],
"topics": [
"grammar",
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nepravilen",
"sense": "irregularly declined",
"word": "неправилен"
},
{
"_dis1": "94 6",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "irregularly declined",
"word": "hétéroclite"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin, published 2003, page 24:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XLVIII, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 281:",
"text": "Nor could I have dreamed the heteroclite crew-men I had met aboard Tzadkiel's ship […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Deviating from the ordinary rule; eccentric, abnormal."
],
"id": "en-heteroclite-en-adj-Rpe0wqrI",
"links": [
[
"ordinary",
"ordinary"
],
[
"eccentric",
"eccentric"
],
[
"abnormal",
"abnormal"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dated) Deviating from the ordinary rule; eccentric, abnormal."
],
"tags": [
"dated"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "anormalen",
"sense": "eccentric, abnormal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "анормален"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "eccentric, abnormal",
"word": "anormal"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "eccentric, abnormal",
"word": "hétéroclite"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "eccentric, abnormal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Heteroklit"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "eccentric, abnormal",
"word": "heteróclito"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "eccentric, abnormal",
"word": "heteróclito"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhɛtəɹəʊklaɪt/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-heteroclite.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/93/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-heteroclite.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-heteroclite.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/93/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-heteroclite.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-heteroclite.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "heteroclite"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*ḱley-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "LL.",
"3": "heteroclitus"
},
"expansion": "Late Latin heteroclitus",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "ἑτερόκλιτος"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ἑτερόκλιτος (heteróklitos)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*ḱley-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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-.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "heteroclites",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "heteroclite (plural heteroclites)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "heteroclitic"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Grammar",
"orig": "en:Grammar",
"parents": [
"Linguistics",
"Language",
"Social sciences",
"Communication",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An irregularly declined or inflected word."
],
"id": "en-heteroclite-en-noun-OthPWpCn",
"links": [
[
"grammar",
"grammar"
],
[
"irregular",
"irregular"
],
[
"decline",
"decline"
],
[
"inflect",
"inflect"
],
[
"word",
"word"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(grammar) An irregularly declined or inflected word."
],
"topics": [
"grammar",
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Linguistics",
"orig": "en:Linguistics",
"parents": [
"Language",
"Social sciences",
"Communication",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A word whose etymological roots come from distinct, different languages or language groups."
],
"id": "en-heteroclite-en-noun-lnjhvmtA",
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
],
[
"etymological",
"etymological"
],
[
"distinct",
"distinct"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics) A word whose etymological roots come from distinct, different languages or language groups."
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "8 0 8 11 73",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "People",
"orig": "en:People",
"parents": [
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A person who is unconventional; a maverick."
],
"id": "en-heteroclite-en-noun-bFMc7Wap",
"links": [
[
"maverick",
"maverick"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "1 4 94",
"sense": "unconventional person",
"word": "free spirit"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhɛtəɹəʊklaɪt/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-heteroclite.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/93/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-heteroclite.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-heteroclite.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/93/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-heteroclite.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-heteroclite.wav.ogg"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "individualist"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "nonconformist"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "maverick"
}
],
"word": "heteroclite"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Late Latin",
"English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"English terms derived from Late Latin",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱley-",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"en:People"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*ḱley-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "LL.",
"3": "heteroclitus"
},
"expansion": "Late Latin heteroclitus",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "ἑτερόκλιτος"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ἑτερόκλιτος (heteróklitos)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*ḱley-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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-.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more heteroclite",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most heteroclite",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "heteroclite (comparative more heteroclite, superlative most heteroclite)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"word": "eclectic"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"en:Grammar"
],
"glosses": [
"Irregularly declined or inflected."
],
"links": [
[
"grammar",
"grammar"
],
[
"Irregularly",
"irregular"
],
[
"decline",
"decline"
],
[
"inflect",
"inflect"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(grammar) Irregularly declined or inflected."
],
"topics": [
"grammar",
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English dated terms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin, published 2003, page 24:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XLVIII, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 281:",
"text": "Nor could I have dreamed the heteroclite crew-men I had met aboard Tzadkiel's ship […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Deviating from the ordinary rule; eccentric, abnormal."
],
"links": [
[
"ordinary",
"ordinary"
],
[
"eccentric",
"eccentric"
],
[
"abnormal",
"abnormal"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dated) Deviating from the ordinary rule; eccentric, abnormal."
],
"tags": [
"dated"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhɛtəɹəʊklaɪt/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-heteroclite.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/93/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-heteroclite.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-heteroclite.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/93/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-heteroclite.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-heteroclite.wav.ogg"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "anormalen",
"sense": "eccentric, abnormal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "анормален"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "eccentric, abnormal",
"word": "anormal"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "eccentric, abnormal",
"word": "hétéroclite"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "eccentric, abnormal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Heteroklit"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "eccentric, abnormal",
"word": "heteróclito"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "eccentric, abnormal",
"word": "heteróclito"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nepravilen",
"sense": "irregularly declined",
"word": "неправилен"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "irregularly declined",
"word": "hétéroclite"
}
],
"word": "heteroclite"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Late Latin",
"English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"English terms derived from Late Latin",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱley-",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"en:People"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*ḱley-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "LL.",
"3": "heteroclitus"
},
"expansion": "Late Latin heteroclitus",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "ἑτερόκλιτος"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ἑτερόκλιτος (heteróklitos)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*ḱley-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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-.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "heteroclites",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "heteroclite (plural heteroclites)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "heteroclitic"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"en:Grammar"
],
"glosses": [
"An irregularly declined or inflected word."
],
"links": [
[
"grammar",
"grammar"
],
[
"irregular",
"irregular"
],
[
"decline",
"decline"
],
[
"inflect",
"inflect"
],
[
"word",
"word"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(grammar) An irregularly declined or inflected word."
],
"topics": [
"grammar",
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Linguistics"
],
"glosses": [
"A word whose etymological roots come from distinct, different languages or language groups."
],
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
],
[
"etymological",
"etymological"
],
[
"distinct",
"distinct"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics) A word whose etymological roots come from distinct, different languages or language groups."
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A person who is unconventional; a maverick."
],
"links": [
[
"maverick",
"maverick"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhɛtəɹəʊklaɪt/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-heteroclite.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/93/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-heteroclite.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-heteroclite.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/93/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-heteroclite.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-heteroclite.wav.ogg"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "unconventional person",
"word": "free spirit"
},
{
"word": "individualist"
},
{
"word": "nonconformist"
},
{
"word": "maverick"
}
],
"word": "heteroclite"
}
Download raw JSONL data for heteroclite meaning in English (7.4kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (b941637 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.