parallēlepipedum

Meaning

1. New Latinparallelepiped
   […]ſic in Curvis ſecundi Generis quæ non niſi duos habent Vertices ad eandem Diametrum, parallelepipedum ſub Ordinatis tribus æquatur parallelepipedo ſub duabus partibus Diametri ad Ordinatas & Vertices illos duos abſciſſis & recta quadam data quæ proinde Latus rectum dici poteſt.1669, Isaac Newton, “Proprietates Sectionum Conicarum competunt Curvis ſuperiorum Generum” (chapter II), in Analysis Per Quantitatum Series, Fluxiones, Ac Differentias, volume Linearum Tertii Ordinis, London: Officina Pearsoniana, published 1711, De Lateribus rectis & tranſverſis (section 3), page 71:
   Parallelepipeda ſuper eâdem baſi, & in eâdem altitudine, licet corum insistentes non ſint in iiſdem lineis: ſunt æqualia.1690, Claude Dechales, chapter XXX, in Cursus Seu Mundus Mathematicus, book XI, Lyon: Anisson, page 227, column 1:

Declension

Origins

1. Proto-Indo-European*per-
2. Proto-Indo-European*preh₂-
3. Proto-Hellenic*pərai
4. Ancient Greek πᾰρᾰ́(părắ)
5. Ancient Greek παρα-(para-)
6. Ancient Greek ἀλλήλων(allḗlōn)
7. Ancient Greek παράλληλος(parállēlos)
8. Latinparallēlepipedum

Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épi Proto-Hellenic *epí Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí) Ancient Greek ἐπι- (epi-) Proto-Indo-European *ped-der. Ancient Greek πέδον (pédon) Ancient Greek ἐπίπεδος (epípedos) Ancient Greek πᾰρᾰλληλεπίπεδος (părăllēlepípedos)lbor. Latin parallēlepipedum Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πᾰρᾰλληλεπίπεδος (părăllēlepípedos).

In English words that came into English from parallēlepipedum

• parallelepipedparallēlepipedum