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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Answer 1

Depending on what you are talking about, you might you use the following:

Singlet
Doublet
Triplet
Quartet
Quintet
etc

For talking about multiple peaks in a graph. If you are talking about singers instead you can use different numbers. We use different numbers depending on what sort of thing you are talking about. For example, a race with 5 events is a pentathlon, not a quintathlon. It’s not really something that’s necessarily logically consistent, but each domain can have it’s own numbering scheme.