heteroclite

Meanings

1. Irregularly declined or inflected.
2. Deviating from the ordinary rule; eccentric, abnormal.

1. An irregularly declined or inflected word.
2. A word whose etymological roots come from distinct, different languages or language groups.
3. A person who is unconventional; a maverick.

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-.