hybrida Latin · revision 9308

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈhy.brɪ.da]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈiː.bri.da]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''hybrida''' ''f'' (genitive hybridae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''hibrida'' and ''ibrida''.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The origin is unknown.^(OLD 2012) The TLL takes it as a foreign word, comparing the glossed ⟨iber⟩ or ⟨imber⟩ “mule”, and doubts a link with Greek, and Wiktionary derives it from ⟨ibrida⟩ influenced by [[grc|ὕβρις|tr=húbris|t=outrage]], and Etymonline calls it probably Greek and related to ⟨hubris⟩.^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first sources are the ''Bellum Africum'' and Horace, whom he dates 65–8 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a half-bred or cross-bred person or animal, and Pliny the Elder uses it of the offspring of a sow and a wild boar.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Etymonline) It was a cognomen, as of Q. Varius, so called, Valerius Maximus says, because his citizenship was doubtful.^(OLD 2012)

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+ It gave [[en|hybrid]] about 1600, “offspring of plants or animals of different species”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of a cross-bred pig.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1600 – English ''hybrid'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A cross-breed, mongrel, [[m|en|hybrid]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|hybrid]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}