[Publius]

"Homosexual" is a modern invention and, from a purist's standpoint, a barbarism, since it combines a Greek root with a Latin root.

Interesting point. The great German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe heard someone refer to an "automobile," which in his era was simply a steam-powered tractor. It wasn't that Goethe couldn't believe that such a device could exist, he couldn't believe that anyone could be so sloppy as to mix a Greek and Latin root. He assured people that it should be called an "autokinetikon."

[Verginius Rufus]

The Modern Greek term for "automobile" is similar--avtokinito (which would be autokineton in English if we had avoided the Latin root for the second element). Likewise in Modern Greek, "television" is tileorasis.

(I don't speak Modern Greek, just happen to have a Greek-English dictionary handy.)