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Latin
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek γεωμέτρης (geōmétrēs).
Noun
geōmetrēs m (genitive geōmetrae); first declension
- geometer, geometrician
c. 177 CE,
Aulus Gellius,
Noctes Atticae 1.20.1:
- Figūrārum, quae σχήματα geōmetrae appellant, genera sunt duo, 'plānum' et 'solidum'.
- Of figures, which geometers call σχήματα, there are two kinds, 'plane' and 'solid'.
Declension
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).
Descendants
References
- “geometres”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “geometres”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- geometres in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.