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Hexopeds?
« on: February 19, 2007, 08:02:55 AM »
Why do I want to say biped and quadraped but monopod and hexapod?
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Hexopeds?
« Reply #1 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.
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