geometres

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See also: géomètres

Latin

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek γεωμέτρης (geōmétrēs).

Noun

geōmetrēs m (genitive geōmetrae); first declension

  1. 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).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative geōmetrēs geōmetrae
Genitive geōmetrae geōmetrārum
Dative geōmetrae geōmetrīs
Accusative geōmetrēn geōmetrās
Ablative geōmetrē geōmetrīs
Vocative geōmetrē geōmetrae

Descendants

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.
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