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But it doesn't combine with ops. You'd need to talk about a hecatops or a hecatontops. And even more than it can't combine with ops, it can't combine with clops because there is no such root.


It does. Combining Latin and Greek roots is done fairly frequently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_word mentions automobile, chloroform, hexadecimal, micro-instruction, petroleum, television and a few others.


Citing wikipedia (“wiki” is a Hawaiian-derived root, and “-pedia” a Greek-derived suffix) is particularly appropriate here.


The thing that will annoy you most of all is that I was fully aware of all of this at the time... and I did it anyways.

Truly the purity of English will never recover from the trauma that I have inflicted on it.


> But it doesn't combine with ops.

Sure, it does, in English, which stole prefixes, suffixes, and roots from Latin, Greek, and many other languages, and has no problem using them together, without special concern about where it got them from.




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