English Explanatory Dictionary

rhombus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A parallelogram having all sides of equal length.
  2. The rhombus diamond, as one of the suits seen in a deck of playing cards ( or ).
  3. In early Greek religion, an instrument whirled on the end of a string similar to a bullroarer.
  4. Any of several flatfishes, including the brill and turbot, once considered part of the genus Rhombus, now in Scophthalmus.
  5. Snails, now in genus Conus or family Conidae.

Pronunciation

/ˈɹɒmbəs/ /ˈɹɑːmbəs/ En-au-rhombus.ogg

Word forms

rhombus rhombi rhombuses

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin rhombus, from Ancient Greek ῥόμβος (rhómbos, “rhombus, spinning top”). Doublet of rhomb and rhumb.

Synonyms

diamond rhomb

Related words

rhombic rhomboid

Derived words

rhombus star

Translations

Albanian: romb Arabic: مُعَيِّن Armenian: շեղանկյուն Azerbaijani: romb Basque: erronbo Belarusian: ромб Bengali: রম্বস Bulgarian: ромб Catalan: rombe Chinese Mandarin: 菱形 Czech: kosočtverec Danish: rombe Danish: rhombe Dutch: ruit Esperanto: rombo Estonian: romb Faroese: romba Finnish: neljäkäs French: losange French: rhombus Galician: rombo Georgian: რომბი German: Rhombus German: Raute Greek: ρόμβος Ancient Greek: ῥόμβος Gujarati: પત્તાંની ચોપડી Haitian Creole: lozanj Hebrew: מְעֻיָּן Hindi: विषमकोण Hungarian: rombusz Icelandic: tígull Icelandic: tigull Ido: rombo Indonesian: belah ketupat Italian: rombo Japanese: 斜方形 Japanese: 菱形 Kannada: ರಾಂಬಸ್ Kazakh: ромб Korean: 마름모 Latin: rhombus Latvian: rombs Limburgish: roet Lithuanian: rombas
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