Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin, from Greek, thematic vowel of many nouns and adjectives in combination
— used as a connective vowel originally to join two elements of Greek origin and now also to join two elements of Latin or other origin and being either identical with
chrys o prase
or analogous to
Angl o -Saxon
an original Greek stem vowel or simply inserted
jazz o phile
dramatic o -musical
— compare -i-