dje@5941ux.UUCP (06/14/83)
If a three-part series is called a trilogy, and a four-part series a tetralogy, is there a word for a two-part series? (please, something more serious than "biology"). Dave Ellis / Bell Labs, Piscataway NJ
rcj@burl.UUCP (06/15/83)
If a three-part series is called a trilogy, and a four-part series is called a tetralogy, then a two-part series is called a bilogy, not a biology. If it is a really trashy, no-redeeming-features two-parter, you could leave out the second 'o' as well. :-) -- The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3814 (Cornet 291) alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ floyd sb1 mhuxv ]!burl!rcj
levy@princeton.UUCP (06/16/83)
A "duology" would be the correct derivation. I don't think it's used.
donn@sdchema.UUCP (06/22/83)
References: 5941ux.287 burl.181 If a three-part series is called a trilogy, and a four-part series is called a tetralogy, then a two-part series is called a bilogy, not a biology. ...and a one-part series is called a monology. Someone had to do it, Donn Seeley UCSD Chemistry Dept. RRCF ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdchema!donn UCSD Linguistics Dept. sdamos!donn@nprdc PS This is what comes of reading too many stories by Stanislaw Lem. PPS My vote is for "dilogy". This would be on analogy (sic) with monad, dyad, triad, tetrad, ... (for linguists or philosophers) or monomer, dimer, trimer, tetramer, ... (for chemists) or monode (why not?), diode, triode, tetrode, ... (for EEs) I think "bi-" is Latin but "di-" is Greek (any classicists out there?).