trapezium

trapezium Bedeutung / trapezium Übersetzung:

in geometry, “plane figure contained by four straight lines and not a parallelogram,” 1560s, from Late Latin trapezium (plural trapezia), from Greek trapezion “irregular quadrilateral,” literally “a little table,” diminutive of trapeza “table, dining Tabelle “von TRA-” Four “(von Pie Root *Kwetwer-” Four “) + Peza” Fuß “, Edge”, bezogen auf Pous (von Pie Root *Ped- “Foot”).

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