hipotenusa

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [i.pu.təˈnu.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [i.po.təˈnu.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [i.po.teˈnu.za]

Noun

hipotenusa f (plural hipotenuses)

1. hypotenuse

Further reading

• “hipotenusa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “hipotenusa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “hipotenusa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “hipotenusa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch hypotenusa, from Latin hypotenusa, from Ancient Greek ὑποτείνουσα πλευρά (hupoteínousa pleurá, “side subtending [the right angle]”), from ὑποτείνουσα (hupoteínousa, “stretching, extending, subtending”), active participle of ὑποτείνω (hupoteínō, “subtend, stretch under”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hipotəˈnusa/
• Rhymes: -sa, -a
• Hyphenation: hi‧po‧te‧nu‧sa

Noun

hipotenusa (plural hipotenusa-hipotenusa, first-person possessive hipotenusaku, second-person possessive hipotenusamu, third-person possessive hipotenusanya)

1. (geometry) hypotenuse

Alternative forms

• هيڤوتينوس (hipoténus) (Standard Malay)

Further reading

• “hipotenusa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• hypothenusa (archaic)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὑποτείνουσα (hupoteínousa, “stretching, extending, subtending”), active participle of ὑποτείνω (hupoteínō, “subtend, stretch under”), through Latin hypotenusa.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /i.po.teˈnu.zɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /i.po.teˈnu.zɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /i.po.teˈnu.za/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /i.pɔ.tɨˈnu.zɐ/

• Rhymes: -uzɐ
• Hyphenation: hi‧po‧te‧nu‧sa

Noun

hipotenusa f (plural hipotenusas)

1. (geometry) hypotenuse (side opposite the right angle in a right triangle)

See also

• cateto
• triângulo

Spanish

Noun

hipotenusa f (plural hipotenusas)

1. (geometry) hypotenuse

Further reading

• “hipotenusa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014