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homogeneous (adj.)
1640s, from Medieval Latin
homogeneus
, from Greek
homogenes
"of the same kind," from
homos
"same" (see
homo-
(1)) +
genos
"kind, gender, race, stock" (see
genus
). Earlier in this sense was
homogeneal
(c. 1600).