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Forums => English & Linguistics => Topic started by: Porter on February 19, 2007, 08:02:55 AM

Title: Hexopeds?
Post by: Porter on February 19, 2007, 08:02:55 AM

Why do I want to say biped and quadraped but monopod and hexapod?

Title: Hexopeds?
Post by: Jonathon on February 19, 2007, 12:53:24 PM

My best guess is that when those terms were being coined, they weren't done systematically; some are from Latin, and some are from Greek. The ones that stuck are in sort of an arbitrary distribution.