different between isosceles vs scalene

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?soscel?s, from Ancient Greek ????????? (isoskel?s, “equal-legged”), from ???? (ísos, “equal”) +? ?????? (skélos, “leg”) +? -?? (-?s, adjective suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??s?s?li?z/

Adjective

isosceles (not comparable)

1. (geometry) Having (at least) two sides of equal length, used especially of a triangle or trapezoid.

Usage notes

• A triangle with three equal sides is normally described as equilateral, even though it can be regarded as a special case of isosceles triangle.

Translations

Further reading

• Isosceles triangle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Isosceles (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• solecises

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????????? (isoskel?s), from ???? (ísos, “equal”) +? ?????? (skélos, “leg”) +? -?? (-?s, adjective suffix).

Pronunciation

• (?soscel?s): (Classical) IPA^(key): /i??sos.ke.le?s/, [i??s??s?k???e?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /i?so.?e.les/, [i?s?????l?s]
• (?sosceles): (Classical) IPA^(key): /i??sos.ke.les/, [i??s??s?k????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /i?so.?e.les/, [i?s?????l?s]

Adjective

?soscel?s (genitive ?soscelis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. (geometry) isosceles (having equal legs)

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective (Greek-type).

¹It is unknown if Classical Latin preserved (or would have preserved) the shortness of the original Greek short ending.Notes:

• The Greek masculine and feminine nominative singular is ????????? (isoskel?s), while the masculine and feminine vocative singular and the neuter nominative, accusative and vocative singular are ????????? (isoskelés). Maybe Latin preserved the short length of the epsilon (?), or maybe it did not so that the declension became similar to Latin third declension adjectives of one ending (like felix).
• This word is often used together with triangulum n and rarer with triangulus m.

References

• ?sosc?les in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ?sosc?l?s in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 860/3

English

Alternative forms

• scalenus (noun)

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin scal?nus (“of unequal sides”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (skal?nós, “uneven, unequal”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ske?.li?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ske??lin/, /ske??lin/
• Rhymes: -i?n

Adjective

scalene (not comparable)

1. (trigonometry) Having sides unequal in length.

2. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the scalene muscle.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

scalene (plural scalenes)

1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of scalene muscle.
2. (trigonometry) Ellipsis of scalene triangle.

See also

• equilateral
• isosceles

References

• “scalene”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “scalenus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “scalene”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• Senecal, canelés, cleanse, elances, enlaces, enscale

Italian

Adjective

scalene

1. feminine plural of scaleno

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ska?le?.ne/, [s?kä???e?n?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ska?le.ne/, [sk??l??n?]

Adjective

scal?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of scal?nus