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Recently I was looking at the X-Men box set and saw that currently five have been released. I had it in my head that these would be called a quintology but I have seen them being called a pentalogy. I assume both words are interchangeable, but is one of the terms preferred over the other, or is it a matter of taste? |
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Pentalogy is the "correct" (as these things go) term. It comes from penta + logy which are both Greek. Quintology, on the other hand, is a mixture of Latin and Greek roots, a practice which is not linguistically kosher. Similarly, it should be tetralogy rather than quadrilogy. |
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Pentad and quincunx could also be used. The latter more often describes a pattern with five coplanar points, such as ones found on dominoes or dice. |
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