Comment by ggsp
13 hours ago
Agree with your sentiment, I think synthetologist (σύνθετος/synthetos + λογία/logia) flows better.
The plural of anthropos is anthropoi, not anthropodes.
13 hours ago
Agree with your sentiment, I think synthetologist (σύνθετος/synthetos + λογία/logia) flows better.
The plural of anthropos is anthropoi, not anthropodes.
Yeah, I realize that's more correct. I also realized when someone else downthread bastardized it into synthropologist that the podes part has entirely to do with feet and nothing to do with beings, necessarily. Anthro- -podes is more what I had in mind, not as a pluralization of anthropos.
So unless the AI has feet you wouldn't study Synthetipology.
You're probably thinking of anthropoids? That's anthrop[os]-oid. Like in humanoid or centroid or factoid. Or dorkazoid.
But since when is there a synthetos? Since right now, I guess. Shrug But you know it's from the same root as thesis, and synthesis (or a more proper ancient Greek spelling) is the noun and doesn't end in -os.
σύνθεσις (súnthesis, “a putting together; composition”), says Wiktionary.
Oh wait there is a σύνθετος, but it's an adjective for "composite". Hmm, OK. Modern Greek, looks like.