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| Available Classical Roots | Abbr | Language Selection | Rationale | |||||||
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| Greek | Latin | ||||||||||
| 0 | *ouden | nil | n | LatinGreek | *Greek ouden would collide with oct (and would also be hard to reduce to a single syllable). | ||||||
| 1 | *hen | un | u | Latin | Greek *hen would collide with hex. | ||||||
| 2 | bi | *di | b | Greek | Latin *di would collide with dec. | ||||||
| 3 | tri | tri | t | Both | Same in both languages (discounting Latin *tert(i)). | ||||||
| 4 | *tet(r) | quad(r) | q | Latin | Greek *tet(r) would collide with tri. | ||||||
| 5 | pent | *quint | p | Greek | Latin *quint would collide with quad(r). | ||||||
| 6 | hex | *sext | h | Greek | Latin *sext would collide with sept. | ||||||
| 7 | *hept | sept | s | Latin | Greek *hept would collide with hex. | ||||||
| 8 | oct | oct | o | Both | Same in both languages. | ||||||
| 9 | enn(e) | *non | e | Greek | Latin *non woud collide with nil (and might be confused for for "not"). | ||||||
| ᘔ | dec | dec | d | Both | Same in both languages. | ||||||
| Ɛ | ? | lev | ℓ | Latin | Truncation of English eleven < OE endleofan literally "one left" (after counting counting to ten). Fancifully, from Latin laevus, lev-‑ "on the left" or "to the left" (eleven being the natural number just to the left of dozen on the number line). | ||||||
The abbreviation for lev can, in theory, be simply a lower case Latin L (l), but since in some fonts this may be hard to distinguish from the numeral 1 or the upper case Latin I, this wiki will use the following alternate letter:
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| Form | Glue Suffix | Code | Glyph | Name | Description | Rationale | ||
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| Multiplier |
| U+2022 | • | BULLET | black small circle | conveys sense ofblack small circle | conveys sense of "times" (multiplication) | |
| U+002A | * | ASTERISK | star (on phone keypadsstar (on phone keypads) | |||||
| Reciprocal | ‑infra· | U+005Cx | \ | REVERSE SOLIDUSREVERSE SOLIDUS | backslash | conveys sense of a denominator conveys sense of a denominator "under" the horizontal bar in a vulgar fraction the horizontal bar in a vulgar fraction | ||
| Power | Positive | ‑qua· | U+2191x | ↑ | UPWARDS ARROW | upward pointing arrowUPWARDS ARROW | upward pointing arrow | conveys sense of "raising" the order of magnitude |
| U+0040x | @ | COMMERCIAL AT | at signCOMMERCIAL AT | at sign | vaguely resembles the "Q" in- ‑qua· | |||
| Negative | ‑cia· | U+2193x | ↓ | DOWNWARDS ARROW | downward pointing arrowDOWNWARDS ARROW | downward pointing arrow | conveys sense of "lowering" the order of magnitude | |
| U+0023x | # | NUMBER SIGN | pound sign, hash, crosshatch, octothorpeNUMBER SIGN | pound sign, hash, crosshatch, octothorpe | "hash" or "sharp" is evocative of "sh" sound in- ‑cia· | |||
Where two abbreviations are specified, the first is favored in environments with full support for Unicode or full typesetting; these are the symbols this wiki will use. The second is an alternate symbol taken from the ASCII character set, and may be used in disadvantaged environments without full support for Unicode.
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