and a minimum of hybridization. For example, biography is Greek, agriculture Latin; but this ideal has seen only limited realization in practice, as for example the word television is a hybrid of Greek tele- and Latin -vision (probably so coined because the 'pure' form telescope had already been adopted for another purpose).

Contemporary developments

Generally, classical compounds were a closed system from the 16th century to the earlier 20th century: the people who used them were classically educated,

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