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That was my point: correlation is not causation. There are a lot of words that ends in oma, not all of them are cancer names. Just a few from an Italian dicti
by romanoderoma 6y ago
That was my point: correlation is not causation.
There are a lot of words that ends in oma, not all of them are cancer names.
Just a few from an Italian dictionary
- perizoma (thong)
- policroma (multi-coloured)
- genoma (genome)
- diploma (I think it's diploma as well in English)
I guess the confusion comes from the suffix -òma [Greek -ωμα] + ώματος
which reads as matos (ò-matos -> oma) and means different things in scientific terminology
- in medical terms indicates a swelling like ematoma (bruise) or a type of cancer (you know that)
- in biology it means a functional unit (condrioma the set of all the mitochondrion)
Pleroma, instead, comes from the verb πληρόω (it reads plero)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%80%CE%BB%CE%B7%CF%81%CF%8C%CF%89 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%80%CE%BB%CE%B7%CF%81%CF%8...
I'm sorry if I can't be more precise, my studies of Greek and Latin ended in high school, decades ago.
- ponker 6y agoHum, interesting, but that's why I said that open source needs to pay more attention to branding, not to Ovid.
- tremon 6y agoI'd rather say that the rest of the world needs to pay more attention to Ovid, as evidenced by this thread. If open source branding helps with that, more power to it.
- ponker 6y agoIf that is the strategy — evangelizing the Classics by naming products that sound vaguely like diseases that encourage further research — I’d have to agree and say more power to them.