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Chimera

2 stages from Greek to English.

Today it means a fanciful, unrealistic idea, or an organism with mixed genetic origins
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Stage 1 of 2
khimaira
Greek · ancient
"a mythical fire-breathing hybrid monster"
a fire-breathing monster with a lion's head, goat's body, and serpent's tail
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Stage 2 of 2
chimera
English · 1300s
"an unrealistic or fantastical idea, or a hybrid creature"
broadened from the monster itself to any wildly fanciful idea
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