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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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...