trapezium
Meaninga little table
Common meaning: a four-sided shape
- trapeza tableLiddell & Scott, Greek-English Lexicon (1883), p. 1568 · scan
- iumLatin noun ending
Journey through time
- Greekτράπεζα‘a table’
- Latintrapezium
- Englishtrapezium‘a four-sided shape’ · today
trapez also in: trapeze
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Greek τράπεζα ‘a table’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Liddell & Scott, Greek-English Lexicon (1883), entry τράπεζα, p. 1568 · dictionary scan
Roots
- τράπεζα Greek “a table”
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