different between trapezium vs quadrangle

English

Etymology

Recorded since 1570, learned borrowing from Late Latin trapezium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (trapézion, “irregular quadrilateral”, literally “a little table”), diminutive of ??????? (trápeza, “table”). Doublet of trapeze.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???pi?.zi.?m/

• (General American, also) IPA^(key): /t?æ?pi.zi.?m/

Noun

trapezium (plural trapeziums or trapezia)

1. (geometry, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A four-sided polygon with two sides parallel
2. (geometry, US, dated) A four-sided polygon with no parallel sides and no sides equal; a simple convex irregular quadrilateral.
3. (anatomy) The trapezium bone of the wrist.
4. A region on the ventral side of the brain, either just back of the pons Varolii, or, as in man, covered by the posterior extension of its transverse fibers.

Usage notes

• (geometry): The terms trapezium and trapezoid have swapped meanings in the US and Canada as compared with the rest of the world.

Synonyms

• (archaic) trapeze
• (geometry, British, four-sided polygon with two parallel sides): (US) trapezoid
• (geometry, US, four-sided polygon with no sides parallel and no equal sides): (British) trapezoid, (British) irregular quadrilateral.

Related terms

• trapeze
• trapeziform
• trapezius
• trapezoid

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin trapezium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (trapézion, “irregular quadrilateral”), diminutive of ??????? (trápeza, “table”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tr??pe?z??m/

Noun

trapezium n (plural trapeziums or trapezia, diminutive trapeziumpje n)

1. (geometry) A trapezium, trapezoid, a quadrilateral with two sides parallel

Related terms

• trapezoïde

Latin

Etymology

Late Latin; from Ancient Greek ????????? (trapézion, “irregular quadrilateral”, literally “a little table”), diminutive of ??????? (trápeza, “table”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tra?pez.zi.um/, [t??ä?p?z?d??z?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tra?ped.d?zi.um/, [t????p?d???z?ium]

Noun

trapezium n (genitive trapezi? or trapez?); second declension

1. trapezium, trapezoid (four-sided shape with no sides parallel and no equal sides)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

English

Etymology

From Old French quadrangle, from Late Latin quadrangulum.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: kw?d?r?ng'gl, IPA^(key): /?kw?d??æ?.??l/

Noun

quadrangle (plural quadrangles)

1. (geometry) A geometric shape with four angles and four straight sides; a four-sided polygon.
2. A courtyard which is quadrangular.
   • 1959, John Knowles, A Separate Peace, chapter 7,

     I looked up from my desk and saw that suddenly there were big flakes twirling down into the quadrangle, settling on the carefully pruned shrubbery bordering the crosswalks, the three elms still holding many of their leaves, the still-green lawns.

3. The buildings forming the border of such a courtyard.
   • 1959, John Knowles, A Separate Peace, chapter 13,

     The quadrangle surrounding the Far Common was never considered absolutely essential to the Devon School.

Synonyms

• (geometry): quadrilateral, 4-gon, tetragon; see also Thesaurus:quadrilateral

Hyponyms

• (geometry): rectangle, square, parallelogram, rhombus, trapezoid

Translations

French

Pronunciation

Noun

quadrangle f (plural quadrangles)

1. (geometry) quadrangle

Derived terms

• quadrangulaire

Old French

Etymology

Late Latin quadrangulum.

Noun

quadrangle m (oblique plural quadrangles, nominative singular quadrangles, nominative plural quadrangle)

1. quadrangle (four-sided polygon)

Adjective

quadrangle m (oblique and nominative feminine singular quadrangle)

1. quadrangular (of a polygon, having four sides and four angles)