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[–] girl@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

these prefixes are mixed and matched, in keeping with the Greek numerical prefixes mono and di, the next would be tri and tetra

πŸ€“ the more you know 🌈🌟

[–] pizzatodato@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh yeah i know but sorry for "trio"

[–] girl@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

no need to apologize, it’s a funny meme

[–] pizzatodato@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

yes i know lol

[–] TheyCallMeHacked@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except di is Latin. Greek would be bi. So for one it would be uni, three would be tri.

[–] girl@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You’ve got that mixed up (: di is Greek, bi is latin. You are correct about Latin prefixes being uni, bi, tri, and quad. Think of the word bicentennial, it is Latin based.

[–] TheyCallMeHacked@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I actually mixed it up with du (and I also mixed up cardinal and multiple prefixes). So to correct, in Latin it should be: simcaprio, bicaprio, tercaprio, quatercaprio etc...