#27756
04/30/2001 11:39 PM
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If I had a leaflet that consisted of two sections folded longitudinally one on top of the other, I'd have a diptych. If there were three sections folded longitudinally, both side sections folding over the centre part, I'd have a triptych. But what I do have is a leaflet that is divided into four longitudinal panels, folded over each other in a zig-zag fashion. Is that called something like "quatriptych"? "Tetriptych"?  Marianna
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#27757
04/30/2001 11:55 PM
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Dear Marianna: as a feeble jest, what you have sounds like a manifold.
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#27758
05/01/2001 2:10 AM
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although the OED lists tetraptych and pentaptych as rare usages for 4 and 5 folds respectively, it also has the more general
polyptych - Anything consisting of more than three leaves or panels folded or hinged together, as a picture or an altar-piece.
[that's a funny one, bill]
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#27759
01/16/2007 4:09 PM
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how about quadruptych
it appears as the name of a flickr group... as does polyptych
peace
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#27760
01/16/2007 4:30 PM
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Quote:
[that's a funny one, bill]
*sniff*
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#27761
01/16/2007 4:45 PM
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Tsuwm is just correct . When the folding would run up to over twenty
maybe you could call it a harmonica leaflet.
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#27762
01/17/2007 3:04 PM
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>quatriptych
The dictionary says triptych itself was formed on the pattern of diptych. So, why not quatriptych on the pattern of triptych?
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#27763
01/17/2007 3:47 PM
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So, why not quatriptych on the pattern of triptych?
'Cause the root language in question would probably be Greek: tetraptych. There's also polyptych.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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#27764
01/17/2007 5:55 PM
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So, why not quatriptych on the pattern of triptych?
'Cause the root language in question would probably be Greek: tetraptych. There's also polyptych.
Both of which are cryptych.
TEd
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#27765
01/17/2007 6:52 PM
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Except for that the crypt is below groundlevel and the diptychs and triptychs are above, in the nave of the church. A low sunken pun.
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