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hetero-: word-forming element meaning "other, different," from comb. form of Greek heteros "the other (of two), another, different;" first element meaning "one, at one, together," from PIE *sem- "one;" the second cognate with the second element in Latin al-ter, Gothic an-þar, Old English o-ðer "other."
heterodox (adj.): 1630s, from Greek heterodoxos, from heteros "the other" (see hetero-) + doxa "opinion," from dokein "to appear, seem, think" (see decent).
heterodoxy (n.): 1650s, from Greek heterodoxia "error of opinion," from heterodoxos (see heterodox).
heterogeneity (n.): 1640s, from Medieval Latin heterogeneitas, from heterogeneus, from Greek heterogenes (see heterogeneous).
heterogeneous (adj.): 1620s, from Medieval Latin heterogeneus, from Greek heterogenes, from heteros "different" (see hetero-) + genos "kind, gender, race stock" (see genus). Earlier in same sense was heterogeneal (c. 1600).
heterogenous (adj.): 1690s, less-correct form of heterogeneous. Related: Heterogeneity.
heterography (n.): "incorrect spelling," 1783; see hetero- + -graphy. Also "inconsistent but current spellings within a language" (as English, in all ages), 1847.
heteromorphic (adj.): "having different or dissimilar forms," 1864; from hetero- + Greek morphe "form" (see Morpheus).
heteronomy (n.): 1798, "subjection to the rule of another power," from hetero- + Greek nomos "law" (see numismatics). Related: Heteronomic; heteronomous.
heteronym (n.): "word having the same spelling as another but with a different sound and meaning," 1880s, also "a thing's name in one language that is an exact translation of its name in another;" from hetero- + -onym "name" (see name (n.)). Related: Heteronymic; heteronymous.
heterophemy (n.): "the (unintentional) use of some other word or phrase in place of the one that was meant," 1875, from hetero- + Greek pheme "utterance," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, tell, say" (see fame (n.)).
heterosexist (adj.): "characteristic of discrimination against homosexuals," 1979; see hetero- + sexist. Related: Heterosexism (1979).
heterosexual (adj.): 1892, in C.G. Craddock's translation of Krafft-Ebbing's "Psychopathia Sexualis," a hybrid; see hetero- + sexual. The noun is recorded from 1920, but not in common use until 1960s. Colloquial shortening hetero is attested from 1933.
heterosexuality (n.): 1900; see heterosexual + -ity.
heterotroph (n.): 1900, from hetero- + Greek trophos "feeder" (see -trophy). Related: Heterotrophic (1893).
heterozygous (adj.): 1889, from heterozygote, from hetero- + zygote.