Neoclassical compoundNeoclassical compounds are compound words composed from combining forms (which act as affixes or stems) derived from classical languages (classical Latin or ancient Greek) roots. Neo-Latin comprises many such words and is a substantial component of the technical and scientific lexicon of English and other languages, via international scientific vocabulary (ISV). For example, Greek bio- combines with Latin -graphy to form biography ("life" + "writing/recording").
International scientific vocabularyInternational scientific vocabulary (ISV) comprises scientific and specialized words whose language of origin may or may not be certain, but which are in current use in several modern languages (that is, translingually, whether in naturalized, loanword, or calque forms). The name "international scientific vocabulary" was first used by Philip Gove in Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961). As noted by David Crystal, science is an especially productive field for new coinages.
Hybrid wordA hybrid word or hybridism is a word that etymologically derives from at least two languages. The most common form of hybrid word in English combines Latin and Greek parts. Since many prefixes and suffixes in English are of Latin or Greek etymology, it is straightforward to add a prefix or suffix from one language to an English word that comes from a different language, thus creating a hybrid word. Hybridisms were formerly often considered to be barbarisms. Antacid – from Greek ἀντι- () 'against' and Latin acidus 'acid'; this term dates back to 1732.
Interlingua (IALA)L'interlingua est une langue construite élaborée par lInternational Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). La construction de l'interlingua par l'IALA débuta en 1924 et fut achevée en 1951. L'un des principaux contributeurs a été Alexander Gode, auteur d'un précis grammatical, d'un dictionnaire interlingua-anglais et d'un ouvrage d'introduction à la langue intitulé Interlingua a Prime Vista, on peut également citer comme collaborateurs Otto Jespersen, Edward Sapir et André Martinet, ainsi que Clark Stillman avec qui Alexander Gode publia la langue.
Mot composéEn linguistique, un mot composé est une juxtaposition de deux lexèmes libres permettant d'en former un troisième qui soit un lemme (« mot ») à part entière et dont le sens ne se laisse pas forcément deviner par celui des deux constituants. Ainsi, un garde-fou est, en français, un lemme indépendant de garde et de fou dont le sens de « balustrade de protection sur un pont, près d'un fossé, empêchant de tomber » ne peut être deviné.
