From Late Latin heteroclitus, from Ancient Greek ἑτερόκλιτος, from ἕτερος + κλίνω, the latter from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-.

• IPA: /ˈhɛtəɹəʊklaɪt/

heteroclite

1. (grammar) Irregularly declined or inflected.
2. (dated) Deviating from the ordinary rule; eccentric, abnormal.
   • 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XLVIII, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC ↗, page 281 ↗:

     Nor could I have dreamed the heteroclite crew-men I had met aboard Tzadkiel's ship […]

• French: anormal, hétéroclite
• German: Heteroklit
• Portuguese: heteróclito
• Spanish: heteróclito

• French: hétéroclite

heteroclite (plural heteroclites)

1. (grammar) An irregularly declined or inflected word.
2. (linguistics) A word whose etymological roots come from distinct, different languages or language groups.
3. A person who is unconventional; a maverick.

• (unconventional person) free spirit, individualist, nonconformist; see also Thesaurus:maverick

• heteroclitic