English
hybrid
Hybrid comes from Latin hibrida ‘a mongrel’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhibrida‘a mongrel’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEhybridavariant of hibrida
- Englishearliest quotation 1859hybrid
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhibrida‘a mongrel’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEhybridavariant of hibrida
- Englishearliest quotation 1859hybrid
Earliest quotation: 1859, Charles Darwin, Variation under Domestication: “Lastly, the hybrids or mongrels from between all the…”
The story
Attested since 1601, but rare before c. 1850.
Every English word from Latin hibrida
Today it means
noun Offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent strains.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin hibrida / hybrid