quadroceptological, and quadraceptological

Chi Meson

Let it be known that my daughter, Nell, made this word up.

It has two spellings, quadroceptological, and quadraceptological. The authorities are now disputing the issue, and the form that is deemed to be spurious will be discarded. Nevertheless, when you google quadroceptological OR quadraceptological, you will now be forwarded to this thread.

The meaning is both obvious and unimportant.

Chi Meson

If anyone from the National Spelling Bee would like to buy rights to this word, contact me.

Otherwise, feel free to use this cromulent word.

zoobyshoe

This is a squigiferous comment and I think you are being stermitaceously croliscient.

Borek

I thought official language of the PF is English.

zoobyshoe

English is a very fluid, rapidly-evolving, lemnolent language.

AlephZero

I think body building is quadrocept-illogical.

Jimmy Snyder

The word English covers a wide range of sins.

Curious3141

I find this entire thread execramonious and verboffusive.

Alfi

Are they?
And who are they?
What possible dispute could they find?




curious minds need to know.
and require references to ... other people that are authorities.

lol j/k

TMO

It's quadroceptological, and let me explain why.

Ancient Indo-European languages (such as Latin and Greek) have something called the thematic vowel, which is used to glue stems together, and in Proto-Indo-European, the value of the thematic vowel is either [e] or [o]. Thus, because [a] is not one of these values, it would leave only quadroceptological.

FlexGunship

I have a question regarding this word's use that fits this description.

Jimmy Snyder

How does quadruped fit into that?

phion

Look up "splenetic", I made that word.

TMO

There's one mistake I made in my original post: the Greek thematic vowel is [o], but in Latin it's [i], so the correct classical compound would be quadriceptological.

Quadruped comes from the Latin quadrupes, which is a variant of quadripes, which is the correct Latin compound of quadr + pes. Sometimes languages have multiple variants of a word, and English, due to chance, picked an irregular variant.

The word "splenetic" comes from the Late Latin spleneticus, so it's highly unlikely (nevermind that we have an English document using "splenetic" which is from 1876, and one that uses "splenetik" which is from 1678).

FreeMitya

This thread wouldn't be complete without this:



To address to the topic, it should be quadraceptological.

Upon further consideration, I've changed my mind.

Jimmy Snyder

But aren't Greek and Latin both Indo-European languages?