Talk:sine

Etymology of Sinus is Dubious.

This page says that sine is derived from the Latin sinus, and states that sinus is a calque of the arabic جَيْب (jayb). Is this correct? First of all "jayb" doesn't look/sound much like "sinus", although the meanings seem to be the same. Is it an actual loan word or just a word with a similar original meaning? Second of all, the page for "sinus" says that the Latin word is of Indoeuropean origin - but Arabic isn't a Indoeuropean language, it's in the Semitic family. One of these two pages must be incorrect, but I don't know which one to edit. --Cladist (talk) 18:34, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

It appears that you do not know what a calque is. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 18:37, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

RFC discussion: September 2015

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sine

Tagged but not listed (and nothing on the talk page). Not obvious to me what the problem is, but could we explain what stressed and unstressed forms are? Renard Migrant (talk) 16:35, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Emphatic? ~Eloquio (talk) 12:00, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Latin descendants

Some of them are not derived from Latin sine, but from absentia, so they should be removed. --2.246.91.93 21:12, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

preposition

(esp in Latin phrases or legal terms) lacking; without --Backinstadiums (talk) 19:32, 9 August 2021 (UTC)