Uttal

    • IPA: /ˈhɛ.tə.rəʊ.klaɪt/

Ingen översättning hittades i den valda målspråket.

Definitioner

Adjektiv

  1. Deviating from the ordinary rule; eccentric, abnormal.
  2. (grammar) Being irregularly declined or inflected.

Substantiv

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

Exempel

  • 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.
  • Nor could I have dreamed the heteroclite crew-men I had met aboard Tzadkiel's ship ...
  • 1759: 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. — Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin 2003, p. 24)
  • 1997: Nor could I have dreamed the heteroclite crew-men I had met aboard Tzadkiel's ship ... — Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun

Böjningsformer

Pluralheteroclites
Komparativmore heteroclite
Superlativmost heteroclite