Duet, Trio, Quartet, Quintet, Sextet, etc. Why is “trio” in here instead of tritet?

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Duet, Trio, Quartet, Quintet, Sextet, etc. Why is “trio” in here instead of tritet?

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Others have already pointed out that the words you gave are not exactly the correct sequence (as it would be duo, not duet), but another note:

A duet, but with three, would not be tritet, but triet. That extra t would be very random.

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