Where does “hybrid rocket” come from?

hybrid rocket (English) comes from English rocket, from French roquette, from Italian rocchetta, from Italian rocchetto, from Italian -etto, from English -et, from Middle English -et, from Old French -et — Forms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality.

hybrid rocket (English): a bipropellant rocket engine which uses...

Definitions

  1. a bipropellant rocket engine which uses...

Ancestry of “hybrid rocket”, step by step

hybrid rocket traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English rocket

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishrocketA rocket engine; A non-guided missile propelled...
2Frenchroquetterocket weapon
3Italianrocchettaincendiary rocket
4Italianrocchettospool; reel; coil
5Italian-ettoAlterative suffix used to form melioratives,...
6English-etUsed to form diminutives, loosely construed
7Middle English-etForms diminutive nouns from nouns; in some words,...
8Old French-etUsed to form a diminutive, masculine noun;...
9Latin-ātused
10Proto-Italic-ātos
11Proto-Indo-European-éh₂tosForms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality

via English hybrid

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishhybridOffspring resulting from cross-breeding different...
2Latinhybridaa hybrid, mongrel; person born of a Roman father...
3LatinibridaAlternative form of hibrida; a mongrel;...
4Latinhibridahybrid, mongrel, half-breed
5Ancient Greekὕβριςpride; insolence; outrage
6Proto-Indo-Europeanud-up, out, away; outward, up
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂tosEvery word from Latin -ātusEvery word from Italian -etto