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rhombus
English
Etymology
From Latin rhombus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (rhómbos, “rhombus, spinning top”), from ????? (rhémb?, “I turn around”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???mb?s/
- (US) IPA(key): /????mb?s/
Noun
rhombus (plural rhombi or rhombuses)
- (geometry) A parallelogram having all sides of equal length. [from 16th c.]
- The rhombus diamond, as one of the suits seen in a deck of playing cards ( or ).
- In early Greek religion, an instrument whirled on the end of a string similar to a bullroarer.
- (zoology, now rare) Any of several flatfishes, including the brill and turbot, once considered part of the genus Rhombus, now in Scophthalmus. [from 16th c.]
- 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, I:
- the greedy Tuberon or Shark arm'd with a double row of venemous teeth pursues them, directed by a little Rhombus, Musculus or pilot-fish that scuds to and fro to bring intelligence [...].
- 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, I:
- (zoology, archaic) Snails, now in genus Conus or family Conidae.
Synonyms
- (geometry): diamond (not in technical use), lozenge (if not square), rhomb
Related terms
Derived terms
- rhombus star
Translations
References
- rhombus at OneLook Dictionary Search
- rhombus in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Latin
Alternative forms
- rombus, rumbus (Medieval Latin)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????? (rhómbos, “rhombus, spinning top”), from ????? (rhémb?, “I turn around”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?rom.bus/, [?r?mb?s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?rom.bus/, [?r?mbus]
Noun
rhombus m (genitive rhomb?); second declension
- rhombus (geometry)
- flatfish
- (Medieval Latin) sturgeon
- Synonym: sturi?
- Hyponym: carroc?
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- rhombus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- rhombus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rhombus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- rhombus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- rhombus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rhombus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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rhombs
English
Noun
rhombs
- plural of rhomb
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