Timeline for What does the word "symplectic" mean?
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| May 8, 2020 at 12:02 | history | edited | Emil Jeřábek | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 25, 2013 at 0:59 | comment | added | Pietro Majer | well, there is no such thing as a root "comp-". | |
| Oct 19, 2011 at 16:53 | comment | added | Qfwfq | The root "comp-" is Latin, the root "sym-" is Greek. | |
| Nov 8, 2010 at 7:32 | history | edited | Jim Conant | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Nov 8, 2010 at 7:31 | comment | added | Jim Conant | Oops, I see there was a typo. I meant Greek! | |
| Nov 8, 2010 at 7:06 | comment | added | Jim Conant | @Pietro: I'm just quoting the source I referenced. Don't blame the messenger! | |
| Nov 7, 2010 at 15:20 | comment | added | Pietro Majer | -1 for saying that "comp" (or "symp") is a Latin root. "Complexus" is originally the p.p. of the verb complector (to embrace, thus, to put together into a whole etc), which is a compound of cum (with) and plecto, and that exactly corresponds to the Greek verb συμπλέκω, compound of σύν and πλέκω. Indeed Weyl did not "coined" the (already existing) Greek term, but only gave it a new mathematical meaning, in analogy to the (modern) mathematical meaning of the Latin term. I'm not sure if technically this can be called a calque. | |
| Nov 7, 2010 at 12:39 | comment | added | j.c. | Words formied this way are called "calques" in general en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calque | |
| Nov 7, 2010 at 11:50 | history | answered | Jim Conant | CC BY-SA 2.5 |