2012/6/18 Tim Gruene <t...@shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > [...] >> of monomers is called a multimer, not a polymer. > [...] > shiver - what a terrible mixture of languages. 'multi-' has got latin > origin, whereas both poly and mer have got greek origin, and I don't > think one should mix these. Please!!! think of a different _GREEK_ > syllable to express what you describe as 'multimer'.
In fact this is quite common. "Automobile", for example comes from greek "autos" plus latin "mobilis".