Re: st: Collinearity: Why two L's?

[Marcello Pagano <pagano@hsph.harvard.edu>]

COL- 
<http://dictionary.oed.com.ezp2.harvard.edu/cgi/crossref?query_type=word&queryword=collinear&first=1&max_to_show=10&single=1&sort_type=alpha&xrefword=col-> 
together + LINEAR 
<http://dictionary.oed.com.ezp2.harvard.edu/cgi/crossref?query_type=word&queryword=collinear&first=1&max_to_show=10&single=1&sort_type=alpha&xrefword=linear>, 
f. L. /l{imac}nea/ line

Me: col as in collection

m.p.



Tinna wrote:


> Dear Statalisters,
>
> Some you you may find this inapropriate on statalist, but I will risk
> getting shot down here since I have thought about this for a while:
>
> Why are there two L's in collinear? One makes more sense to me. 
>   Co (together; joint; jointly; mutually) 
> + linear (or resembling a line / straight)
> =colinearity
>
>
> Tinna
> Native language: Icelandic
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