Did the Romans ever combine Greek and Latin morphemes?

Question

Recently I was thinking about words in English which were formed from a Greek and Latin morpheme pair. An example of this is 'television', where 'tele-' is a Greek-originating prefix while 'vision' is of Latin origin.

That then got me thinking; did the Romans ever do anything like this with their Latin words? Did they ever, for instance, add Greek prefixes instead of a Latin one to their words?

Note: I do realize that this question may be more nuanced than I've stated thus far, since there are many Latin words of Greek origin, but which are otherwise entirely Latin words; such a scenario would be ambiguous. These ambiguities should be included as examples, just to be sure.

Answer 1

In a couple of letters where he describes villas (esp. 2.17 and 5.6), Pliny the Younger uses cryptoporticus (Greek κρυπτός + Latin porticus) to describe a colonnade with wall and windows – a covered gallery. Commentators (e.g., A. N. Sherwin-White, The letters of Pliny: a historical and social commentary ad II.17.16) seem to agree that he coined this term.

Answer 2

There are cases where a word is borrowed from Greek to Latin, and then a new word is derived from it within Latin. Whether this counts as mixing morphemes from the two languages depends on how non-Greek the morpheme added in derivation is. My Greek vocabulary is weak, so the list may contain morphemes that turn out not to be non-Greek. I have attempted to separate the languages with a hyphen.

Here are some examples:

• phalang-arius
• Philadelph-enus
• Phocae-ensis
• chalastic-amen
• Chalcedon-ius
• Chimaeri-fer (I would expect the corresponding Greek morpheme to be borrowed to Latin as -phorus (cf. Phosphorus or amphora), so I would argue that -fer is non-Greek.)
• hydr-inus
• hydro-garum
• hymni-sonus (post-classical)

If some of my suffixes turn out to be too Greek, let me know.

Answer 3

Another example I came across, even though it doesn't seem to have classical examples: euroauster, "the Southeast wind," which is a combination of:

1. eurus, from Greek εὖρος, "the East wind"
2. auster, "the South wind"

Classically, this word uses both Greek roots: euronotus from εὐρόνοτος, but Isidore gives some late testimony that the Greek + Latin combination was in use:

Euroauster dictus quod ex una parte habeat Eurum, ex altera Austrum. (Etym., XIII.11.6)