Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros
Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros
Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor.
English hetero-
Proto-Indo-European *sek-der.
Proto-Indo-European *séks-u-sder.
Proto-Italic *seksus
Proto-Indo-European *sek-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *sékh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *sekaō
Latin secō
Latin secāre?
Latin sexus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin sexuālisbor.
English sexual
English -sexual
English heterosexualclip.
English het
Clipping of heterosexual.
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros
Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros
Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor.
English hetero-
Proto-Indo-European *sek-der.
Proto-Indo-European *séks-u-sder.
Proto-Italic *seksus
Proto-Indo-European *sek-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *sékh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *sekaō
Latin secō
Latin secāre?
Latin sexus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin sexuālisbor.
English sexual
English -sexual
English heterosexualclip.
English het
Clipping of heterosexual.
Meanings
(countable, slang) A heterosexual person.
See how you like that you townie het from southeastern MA / Saying "fairy" and "Mark Wahlberg" like it's southie any day 2020, “metal”, in food house, performed by food house:
(slang, uncountable) Fan fiction involving characters in an opposite-sex romantic or sexual relationship.
The vast majority of fan fiction is het or slash, and these types are usually defined against each other as approaches to romance and porn, marginalizing gen as something outside of the dominant concerns of fan fiction. 2006, Catherine Driscoll, “One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance”, in Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse, editors, Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 84:
Mary Ellen Curtin presented a paper at the 2002 Popular Culture Association conference in which she studied fanfiction archives to discover that black characters appeared far less in both het and slash fiction than white or even Latino/a characters. 2005, Rhiannon Bury, Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online, Peter Lang, published 2005, →ISBN, page 207:
Other studies explore why some women write het, or fictions with heterosexual pairings of certain couples, within canons such as Star Trek Voyager that generally inspire slash fiction (Somogyi, 2002). 2010, Rebecca Ward Black, “Just Don't Call Them Cartoons: The New Literacy Spaces of Anime, Manga, and Fanfiction”, in Julie Coiro, Michele Knobel, Colin Lankshear, Donald J. Leu, editors, Handbook of Research on New Literacies, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, →ISBN, page 595:
Etymology tree
Middle English het
Middle English hette
English het
From Middle English hette (simple past), het (past participle), from Old English hǣtte (simple past), (ġe)hǣted (past participle), conjugations of hǣtan (“to heat”); see heat (“to make hot”).
Etymology tree
Middle English het
Middle English hette
English het
From Middle English hette (simple past), het (past participle), from Old English hǣtte (simple past), (ġe)hǣted (past participle), conjugations of hǣtan (“to heat”); see heat (“to make hot”).
Meanings
(dialectal, form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of heat