Aliasing chimaera → chimera
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Reason:

Not exactly sure what to do with this tag, but this seems to make sense.

Technically speaking the Greek form is spelled "chimera" and the alternate spelling "chimaera" tends to refer slightly more to genetics and a particular classification of fish that doesn't seem notable enough to tag with anything specific. However, I don't see any fishes (or genetics) in what it's tagged as and it seems to be common enough to get confused at least somewhat.

There was only ~20 of them, and half were already tagged chimera, so approved.

never heard of it called chimaera before but i thought i'd point out something similar that had me confused for many years.

cerberus and kerberos

"The name "Cerberus" is a Latinised version of the Greek Kerberos." and so wikipedia helped me with something that had me confused for quite some time (mainly since some video games like castlevania would go by the name cerberus and iirc some like the shin megami tensei games might use kerberos instead).

That's actually extremly common with Greek/Roman culture to the point where it's almost a joke to make fun of the Romans for stealing their gods. I wasn't aware of the the kerberos one though, that's interesting to know.

parasprite said:
That's actually extremly common with Greek/Roman culture to the point where it's almost a joke to make fun of the Romans for stealing their gods. I wasn't aware of the the kerberos one though, that's interesting to know.

Also, spelling-wise the C in Greek loanwords tend to be cognate to K in their Greek equivelents (so cerberus/kerberos, cyclops/kyklops). You see a similar effect between C/H (cent/hundred, cardiac/heart/coeur [last one is French]) and D/T (ten/decade, teeth/dental). [/nerd]

o.O interesting

edit: *facepalm* gooGLE! so you can give a definition with pronunciation of english words when the word is entered with ? at the end of it yet i enter a french word (coeur) and you give me nothing. *sigh* predictably typical google.

i was going to check how that's pronounced as i have often seen a creature in final fantasy games that has that word as part of it's name and i'm not sure if i've been pronouncing it right all this time. the name is coeurl. how do you pronounce coeurl? (and yes, i can at least speak words of other languages once i get the pronunciation down. reading on the other hand... >.>)

treos said:

edit: *facepalm* gooGLE! so you can give a definition with pronunciation of english words when the word is entered with ? at the end of it yet i enter a french word (coeur) and you give me nothing. *sigh* predictably typical google.

http://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/cœur#French - It helps if you know how to read IPA, but something like "kurr" shouldn't be too far off for non-French speakers (it actually rhymes with auteur).

how do you pronounce coeurl?

No idea. The author for the work that the creature actually comes from is Canadian, so I'd be surprised if there wasn't at least some similarity in pronunciation. Though apparantly the French version of the book referred to them as "zorl". /shrug

parasprite said:
No idea. The author for the work that the creature actually comes from is Canadian, so I'd be surprised if there wasn't at least some similarity in pronunciation. Though apparantly the French version of the book referred to them as "zorl". /shrug

hmmm...well, hearing it spoken at that link helped a little, i think. i suppose coeurl would just be the same word with a l tacked on at the end or something.