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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:59:37 +0000
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by: HenHanna - Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:59 UTC

Ross Clark wrote:

> On 13/01/2022 3:27 p.m., Dingbat wrote:
>> -oid, -oidal, -oidism, -odic - (Greek: like, resembling, similar to, form).
>>
>> In English, these often mean "having the form of" rather than "similar to":
>>
>> acanthoid, colloidal (adjective), spheroid (noun).
>>

> The -oid- ones do -- related to Gk eidos 'form'.

> -odic does not have this meaning, in fact is not really a thing -- just
> the common adjective-forming suffix -ic after various noun stems ending
> in -od

iirc ... "sinusoidal" just means Sine(curve)Shaped, and no suggestion of Pseudo- or Quasi-

They are common in math terms

Rhomboid
Cuboid: A three-dimensional shape with six rectangular faces, like a rectangular box.
Spheroid: A solid resembling a sphere but slightly elongated in one direction, like an oval-shaped ball.
Conoid: ..........

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