Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ðiámetros/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðiámetros/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðiámetɾos/

Noun

διάμετρος • ‎(diámetros) f ‎(genitive διαμέτρου); second declension

1. the diameter or diagonal of a parallelogram
   • Plato, Meno 85.B
   • Plato, Timaeus 54.E
   • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 5.5.8
   • Aristotle, On the Heavens 1.8.11
   • Aristotle, Meteorology 2.6.5
   • Aristotle, Progression of Animals 1.5
   • Aristotle, Progression of Animals 14.4, (Compare Plutarch, Moralia 23.A)
   • Lucian, The Downward Journey 14
   1. the diameter of a circle
      • Aristotle, On the Heavens 1.4.3
      • Aristotle, Movement of Animals 3.4
2. a rule for drawing the diameter
   • Aristophanes, The Frogs 801

Inflection

Descendants

• Russian: диаметр ‎(diametr)

References

• διάμετρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• διάμετρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «διάμετρος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «διάμετρος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • diagonal idem, page 221.
  • diameter idem, page 222.
• LSJ 8th edition

Greek

Noun

διάμετρος • ‎(diámetros) f ‎(plural διάμετροι)

1. (geometry, engineering) diameter

Declension

See also

• ακτίνα f ‎(aktína, “radius”)
• περιφέρεια f ‎(periféreia, “circumference”)