Example: Commutative and Abelian are synonyms, but there's "Commutative monoid" and "Abelian group". Why not use same adjective. But of course also the random bag of words that have nothing to do with the concept, like magma.
Angiotensin-converting enzyme - does exactly what it says on the tin. You can lex it even further:
- Angio - heart (from ango, vessel)
- Tens - from hypertension, vis tendo, tendere, to stretch.
- (-in) - suffix associated with polypeptides:
- Convertere - turn around, from:
- Con - with
- Vert - turn
- En - inside
- Zyme - from zume/zymē - leavened, loosely, biological thing which causes leavening
It just makes so much sense! Lexemes are so cool. Like digging into linguistic source code.
Magmas are usually called "groupoids", but there's another generalization of group also called "groupoids". I'm actually not sure they really deserve a short name, rather than just "set with a binary operation", since there isn't much you can say about them in that generality that you can't generalize to "set with two binary operations", "set with a binary and a trinary operation", etc. The argument for a name is it gives you something to modify, since there are interesting special cases such as "medial groupoids". (An example of a medial groupoid is the real numbers with the "average of two numbers" operation.)
I agree. Too cute for its own sake.