More on "decimate"

[James Smith]

Maybe we need a whole set of words: unimate, hemimate,
quadrimate, pentimate, octimate, hemidemidecimate ...
Help me get the correct prefixes here!  Should we mix
Latin and Greek?

James D. SMITH                 |If history teaches anything
South SLC, UT                  |it is that we will be sued
jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com     |whether we act quickly and decisively
                               |or slowly and cautiously.


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