The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὁμογενής“of the same race, family or kind”
- Medieval Latin · derived fromhomogeneus
- English todayhomogeneous
From Medieval Latin homogeneus, from Ancient Greek ὁμογενής (homogenḗs, “of the same race, family or kind”), from ὁμός (homós, “same”) + γένος (génos, “kind”). Compare homo- (“same”) and -ous (adjectival suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.