different between polylogy vs tetralogy

English

Etymology

poly- +? -logy

Noun

polylogy (usually uncountable, plural polylogies)

1. (rare) A set of two or more works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
   • 1871 August Pfizmaier [1]

     These works […] appear, upon closer scrutiny, to be dramatic, and are actually the seventh and eighth parts of an "ennealogy" (as it were), perhaps polylogy, for dramas in Japan frequently are protracted to such lengths.

2. (rare) Talkativeness.

Related terms

• dilogy (2)
• trilogy (3)
• tetralogy (4)
• pentalogy (5)
• hexalogy (6)
• heptalogy (7)
• octalogy (8)
• ennealogy (9)
• decalogy (10)

References

• polylogy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

From tetra- +? -logy.

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?-tr?l?-?-j?, IPA^(key): /t??t?æl?d?i/

Noun

tetralogy (plural tetralogies)

1. A set of four works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as four individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
   1. (historical) A group of four dramas, three tragic and one satiric, exhibited together at the festivals of Dionysus at Athens.
2. (medicine) A combination of four symptoms.
3. (medicine, colloquial) Tetralogy of Fallot.

Synonyms

• (four related works): quadrilogy (nonstandard)

Related terms

• duology (2)
• trilogy (3)
• quadrilogy (4)
• pentalogy (5)
• hexalogy (6)
• heptalogy (7)
• octalogy (8)
• ennealogy (9)
• decalogy (10)
• polylogy (2+)

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