Timeline for What is the correct Latin prefix for 'two-and-a-half-times'?
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| Jan 17, 2022 at 8:48 | answer | added | ian williams | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 28, 2018 at 7:37 | answer | added | AmbretteOrrisey | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 9, 2017 at 19:46 | vote | accept | guest | ||
| Aug 8, 2017 at 6:56 | comment | added | guest | Many thanks for the answers. There was a precise motivation for this: it can be useful, to give structure to investigations, to have words for the number of syllables in (the usual spoken rendition of) a word, and yes, half-syllables are on the radar of science, and yet I do not know of any usual term for 2½-syllabic. In particular "sestersyllabic" is (probably not for long because of this thread) currently an example of the rare species of reasonable words with 0 hits on G. | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 19:15 | answer | added | brianpck | timeline score: 9 | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 18:01 | comment | added | Joonas Ilmavirta♦ | There is a decent chance that there is no such prefix at all. After all, we are extremely unlikely to have a separate prefix for 13½ times or the like, so the prefix sequence (semi-, sesqui-, ...) has to terminate somewhere. Whether 2½ is included is a good question. | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 15:30 | history | asked | guest | CC BY-SA 3.0 |