• oce 🐆
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    8 months ago

    Meter is not Greek.

    Do you mean its pronunciation is not Greek?

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      8 months ago

      Both thermo and meter are from Greek, but the combination didn’t exist until the 17th century

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        8 months ago

        What you wrote before is confusing then.