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This is an aside but “trifecta but with four” actually has an awesome name: “Superfecta”!


Tetrafecta would be cooler


Cursory googling says tetra is Greek and perfect is Latin, so its a bastard word like erogenous or television.


Side point: television is a bastard word, but erogenous is not Greek eros + Latin genus; it's all greek (ἐρωτογενής — it would be erotogenous in English since the root of the word eros is erot- , but the extra syllable was dropped; another example of differentiated transliteration is φωτογενής which became photogenic instead of photogenous).


I have just written an essay about the word water in the sibling post comments.

One thing I discovered in the process is that the word water comes to english all the way from Proto Indo European. The word hydro, however, comes from ancient greek, which comes from the same PIE word for water.


> bastard word like ... television.

From where I am, it is simply telly, because why not bastardise it some more while we are at it.


I would probably avoid naming Firebase alternatives with a prefix like “Super” at this time.


I am dumb. Why? Was there some failed/controversial thing?


Probably because of Supabase, I think.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfecta

Sounds like someone made up the name to just sound better than trifecta. It's marketing speak.

Also, as the link says, it has been used to mean more than four. And other languages use their own equivalent of "quadfecta" instead.

Plus, I knew exactly what "quadfecta" meant, but would have no idea about "superfecta".


"Supafecta"




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