Since a trilogy is three and quadrology is four what is five and six and so on? What is the way to remember numbers ending in logy?
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It's "quadrilogy", not "quadrology". The five and six are quintilogy and sextilogy.
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bostjan the adequate 🥉 Except "quadrilogy" is not the accepted term. It does appear in some dictionaries, but, in every place I could find it, it said "a tetralogy." -
Shadow Of The Mind bostjan64, I have a DVD box set of four movies that says quadrilogy on the front of the cover. -
bostjan the adequate 🥉 I don't doubt that it is sometimes used. But, still, look it up in the dictionary. For example, the following dictionaries I looked in have no definition of "quadrilogy" listed, yet DO have definitions of "tetralogy" fitting the meaning: Merriam-Webster, Collins, Cambridge, Oxford Student, American Heritage. It's in the unabridged OED, saying "(nonstandard) a tetralogy." Also try googling both terms and see how many hits for each: "tetralogy" - 6 million hits vs "quadrilogy" with only 600 thousand. It's a nonstandard term. Having it appear on a product package doesn't mean it's a proper term. For example, the existence of a song called "Ain't No Sunshine," doesn't mean that "ain't" is the proper term for expressing the idea that something does not exist.
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Shadow Of The Mind I understand
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How to remember: 1. they all end in "-logy," which is the ancient Greek for "story" - (think of how a "log" is a story, like a travel log or police log or whatever) 2. Attach the appropriate ancient Greek number: 2= di-, 3= tri, 4= tetra-, 5= penta-, 6= hexa- etc.
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Shadow Of The Mind
Interesting information. I wonder if the ancient Greek numbers are used for DVD box sets. -
bostjan the adequate 🥉
They were typically used for serial plays, which were rather common in the antiquity, and possibly also for story books, but there is less providence of that.
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