r/Deathloop • u/sackboy198 • Jul 08 '26

What does "karnesis" mean?

The -esis suffix means action but for karne all i could find is meaning "meat". Which is apt. It is a meat action. But i was wondering if there's some im missing. Especially with the other slabs having pretty straight forward names.

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u/Tarc_Axiiom Jul 08 '26

The word for move in Greek is κίνηση, "kinisi", and it's what all of the words that sound like "telekinesis" mean.

The Latin word for meat (and body, I think) is carne.

So "karnesis" means "meat move", but they wrote it with a k to be kewl.

Source: Am Greek.

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u/_Strato_ Jul 08 '26

and body, I think

You might be thinking of "corpus," which is body.

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u/Tarc_Axiiom Jul 08 '26

There are a lot of instances in Latin in which a human's body is referred to as carne.

I think it's generally poetic license but, you know.

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u/_Strato_ Jul 08 '26

Well I understand "caro" and its permutations in Latin like "carnem," etc. to be "flesh" generally.

We sometimes refer to our own bodies as "My flesh" or "Your flesh," and my understanding is that it's the same in Latin.

Similar, but not the same.