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Re:Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated by thaumasiotes on Monday September 19, 2022 @01:18PM (#32901162)
> Centiclops is a lot like a cyclops with one eye, except th[at] as a reading of the roots clearly indicates, this is a creature with 100 eyes.

Not in any normal sense of "roots". Cent is a Latin root meaning 100. ops is a Greek form meaning eye. The -i- indicates that the word is being formed in Latin, and the -cl- is entirely spurious. The original Greek word divides as cycl-ops, not cy-clops.

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Re:Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated by martyvis on Monday September 19, 2022 @05:13PM (#32904056)
A bit like the heli-copter | helico-pter thing.
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Re:Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated by kevinpet on Monday September 19, 2022 @08:07PM (#32905887)
Wow. I never noticed that before. Spiral wings.
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Re:Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated by FabHK on Monday September 19, 2022 @07:37PM (#32905636)
Impressively polylingual, even multiglot.
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Re:Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated by inopinatus on Monday September 19, 2022 @05:10PM (#32904015)
In any case, there is already an ancient, general, and perfectly serviceable epithet Panoptes.
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Re:Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated by anthk on Monday September 19, 2022 @07:07PM (#32905373)
Cent is easy to grasp if you speak a Romance.
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Re:Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated by thaumasiotes on Monday September 19, 2022 @07:13PM (#32905425)
But it doesn't combine with ops. You'd need to talk about a hecatops or a hecatontops. And even more than it can't combine with ops, it can't combine with clops because there is no such root.
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Re:Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated by Someone on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @02:01AM (#32908193)
It does. Combining Latin and Greek roots is done fairly frequently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_word mentions automobile, chloroform, hexadecimal, micro-instruction, petroleum, television and a few others.

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Re:Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated by dragonwriter on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @09:31PM (#32919946)
Citing wikipedia (“wiki” is a Hawaiian-derived root, and “-pedia” a Greek-derived suffix) is particularly appropriate here.
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Re:Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated by jerf on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @09:37AM (#32911476)
The thing that will annoy you most of all is that I was fully aware of all of this at the time... and I did it anyways.

Truly the purity of English will never recover from the trauma that I have inflicted on it.

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Re:Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated by dragonwriter on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @09:29PM (#32919936)
> But it doesn't combine with ops.

Sure, it does, in English, which stole prefixes, suffixes, and roots from Latin, Greek, and many other languages, and has no problem using them together, without special concern about where it got them from.

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