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Re: Duplo-name confirmed to be reborne
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lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo
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Thu, 5 Feb 2004 21:19:06 GMT
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> > I think LEGO QUATRO is a great idea! Smaller than PRIMO, yet bigger than
> > DUPLO. And hopefully much more compatible with SYSTEM than PRIMO is.
> >
> > From the pictures, it looks like this is 4x the scale of LEGO SYSTEM
> > (hence the "quat-") and 2x the scale of LEGO DUPLO (which itself is 2x
> > the scale of LEGO SYSTEM -- hence the "du-").
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> maybe some guy at TLG are portuguese.
> DUPLO means "double"
> QUATRO means "four (4)"
> but PRIMO means "cousin" :)
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> i think PRIMO means "first" in italian
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> LBaixinho
I thought the use of those prefixes goes waaayyy back to earlier times...like
maybe latin? The main source of most of the romance languages?
DU --- double/two
QUAT - Four
primo--perhaps coming from "prime" meaning "first"??
(or some interpretation there of)
haven't checked my entymology here, so I may not be entirely correct...
I think Duplo first came into being around 1967, and Primo in 1995, though...
-Scott Lyttle
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