Saturday 27 February 2016

latin - What is the difference between "Hept-" and "Sept-" prefixes?

It's the difference between Latin and Greek. Four, five and six do have their own forms.



Latin: bi-, tri-, quad-, quin-, sex-, sept-...
Greek: di-, tri-, tetra-, pent-, hex-, hept-...



Generally, Latin prefixes are added to Latin roots and Greek prefixes to Greek roots.



Quadrilateral, quintuplet, September etc.;
Tetrahedron, heptagon etc.

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