geometria

See also: geometría

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin geōmetria, from Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ʒə.u.məˈtɾi.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ʒə.o.məˈtɾi.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [d͡ʒe.o.meˈtɾi.a]

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Noun

geometria f (plural geometries)

1. geometry

Related terms

• geomètric

Further reading

• “geometria”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “geometria”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “geometria” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “geometria”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Esperanto

Etymology

From geometrio (“geometry”) +‎ -a (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡeomeˈtria/

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• Rhymes: -ia
• Syllabification: ge‧o‧me‧tri‧a

Adjective

geometria (accusative singular geometrian, plural geometriaj, accusative plural geometriajn)

1. geometric

Further reading

• “geometria”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “geometria”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English geometry), ultimately from Latin geōmetria, from Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeoˌmetriɑ/, [ˈɡe̞o̞ˌme̞t̪riɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -etriɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ge‧o‧met‧ri‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): geo‧metria

Noun

geometria

1. geometry

Declension

Inflection of geometria (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		geometria	geometriat
genitive		geometrian	geometrioiden geometrioitten
partitive		geometriaa	geometrioita
illative		geometriaan	geometrioihin
		singular	plural
nominative		geometria	geometriat
accusative	nom.	geometria	geometriat
	gen.	geometrian
genitive		geometrian	geometrioiden geometrioitten geometriain rare
partitive		geometriaa	geometrioita
inessive		geometriassa	geometrioissa
elative		geometriasta	geometrioista
illative		geometriaan	geometrioihin
adessive		geometrialla	geometrioilla
ablative		geometrialta	geometrioilta
allative		geometrialle	geometrioille
essive		geometriana	geometrioina
translative		geometriaksi	geometrioiksi
abessive		geometriatta	geometrioitta
instructive		—	geometrioin
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of geometria (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative geometriani geometriani accusative nom. geometriani geometriani gen. geometriani genitive geometriani geometrioideni geometrioitteni geometriaini rare partitive geometriaani geometrioitani inessive geometriassani geometrioissani elative geometriastani geometrioistani illative geometriaani geometrioihini adessive geometriallani geometrioillani ablative geometrialtani geometrioiltani allative geometrialleni geometrioilleni essive geometrianani geometrioinani translative geometriakseni geometrioikseni abessive geometriattani geometrioittani instructive — — comitative — geometrioineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative geometriasi geometriasi accusative nom. geometriasi geometriasi gen. geometriasi genitive geometriasi geometrioidesi geometrioittesi geometriaisi rare partitive geometriaasi geometrioitasi inessive geometriassasi geometrioissasi elative geometriastasi geometrioistasi illative geometriaasi geometrioihisi adessive geometriallasi geometrioillasi ablative geometrialtasi geometrioiltasi allative geometriallesi geometrioillesi essive geometrianasi geometrioinasi translative geometriaksesi geometrioiksesi abessive geometriattasi geometrioittasi instructive — — comitative — geometrioinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative geometriamme geometriamme accusative nom. geometriamme geometriamme gen. geometriamme genitive geometriamme geometrioidemme geometrioittemme geometriaimme rare partitive geometriaamme geometrioitamme inessive geometriassamme geometrioissamme elative geometriastamme geometrioistamme illative geometriaamme geometrioihimme adessive geometriallamme geometrioillamme ablative geometrialtamme geometrioiltamme allative geometriallemme geometrioillemme essive geometrianamme geometrioinamme translative geometriaksemme geometrioiksemme abessive geometriattamme geometrioittamme instructive — — comitative — geometrioinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative geometrianne geometrianne accusative nom. geometrianne geometrianne gen. geometrianne genitive geometrianne geometrioidenne geometrioittenne geometriainne rare partitive geometriaanne geometrioitanne inessive geometriassanne geometrioissanne elative geometriastanne geometrioistanne illative geometriaanne geometrioihinne adessive geometriallanne geometrioillanne ablative geometrialtanne geometrioiltanne allative geometriallenne geometrioillenne essive geometriananne geometrioinanne translative geometriaksenne geometrioiksenne abessive geometriattanne geometrioittanne instructive — — comitative — geometrioinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative geometriansa geometriansa accusative nom. geometriansa geometriansa gen. geometriansa genitive geometriansa geometrioidensa geometrioittensa geometriainsa rare partitive geometriaansa geometrioitaan geometrioitansa inessive geometriassaan geometriassansa geometrioissaan geometrioissansa elative geometriastaan geometriastansa geometrioistaan geometrioistansa illative geometriaansa geometrioihinsa adessive geometriallaan geometriallansa geometrioillaan geometrioillansa ablative geometrialtaan geometrialtansa geometrioiltaan geometrioiltansa allative geometrialleen geometriallensa geometrioilleen geometrioillensa essive geometrianaan geometrianansa geometrioinaan geometrioinansa translative geometriakseen geometriaksensa geometrioikseen geometrioiksensa abessive geometriattaan geometriattansa geometrioittaan geometrioittansa instructive — — comitative — geometrioineen geometrioinensa

Derived terms

compounds

• avaruusgeometria
• differentiaaligeometria
• fraktaaligeometria
• molekyyligeometria
• tasogeometria

Further reading

• “geometria”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Galician

Noun

geometria f (plural geometrias, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of xeometría

Further reading

• “geometria”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin geometria, from Ancient Greek γεωμετρία (geōmetría, “geometry, land-survey”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɛomɛtrijɒ]
• Hyphenation: ge‧o‧met‧ria
• Rhymes: -jɒ

Noun

geometria (usually uncountable, plural geometriák)

1. geometry (branch of mathematics)

   Synonym: mértan

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	geometria	geometriák
accusative	geometriát	geometriákat
dative	geometriának	geometriáknak
instrumental	geometriával	geometriákkal
causal-final	geometriáért	geometriákért
translative	geometriává	geometriákká
terminative	geometriáig	geometriákig
essive-formal	geometriaként	geometriákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	geometriában	geometriákban
superessive	geometrián	geometriákon
adessive	geometriánál	geometriáknál
illative	geometriába	geometriákba
sublative	geometriára	geometriákra
allative	geometriához	geometriákhoz
elative	geometriából	geometriákból
delative	geometriáról	geometriákról
ablative	geometriától	geometriáktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	geometriáé	geometriáké
non-attributive possessive – plural	geometriáéi	geometriákéi

Possessive forms of geometria

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	geometriám	geometriáim
2nd person sing.	geometriád	geometriáid
3rd person sing.	geometriája	geometriái
1st person plural	geometriánk	geometriáink
2nd person plural	geometriátok	geometriáitok
3rd person plural	geometriájuk	geometriáik

Derived terms

• geometriai

Compound words

• differenciálgeometria
• geometriakönyv
• geometriaóra
• geometriatanár

Expressions

• affin geometria
• algebrai geometria
• analitikus geometria
• ábrázoló geometria
• euklideszi geometria
• gömbi geometria
• nemeuklideszi geometria

Further reading

• geometria in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin geōmetria, from Ancient Greek γεωμετρία (geōmetría, “geometry, land-survey”), from γεωμετρέω (geōmetréō, “to practice or to profess geometry, to measure, to survey land”), from γαία (gaía, “earth, land, country”) + μετρέω (metréō, “to measure, to count”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒe.o.meˈtri.a/
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: ge‧o‧me‧trì‧a
• (proscribed) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒo.meˈtri.a/

Noun

geometria f (plural geometrie)

1. geometry
2. structure

   Synonym: struttura

Derived terms

• geometrico

Further reading

• geometria in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• agiteremo, eterogami, geotermia, megaterio

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γεωμετρία (geōmetría, “geometry, land-survey”), from γεωμετρέω (geōmetréō, “to practice geometry, to measure or survey”), back-formation from γεωμέτρης (geōmétrēs, “land measurer”), from γῆ (gê, “earth, land, country”) + μετρέω (metréō, “to measure, to count”) or -μετρία (-metría, “measurement”), from μέτρον (métron, “a measure”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɡe.oːˈmɛ.tri.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒe.oˈmɛː.tri.a]

Noun

geōmetria f (genitive geōmetriae); first declension

1. (mathematics) geometry

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	geōmetria	geōmetriae
genitive	geōmetriae	geōmetriārum
dative	geōmetriae	geōmetriīs
accusative	geōmetriam	geōmetriās
ablative	geōmetriā	geōmetriīs
vocative	geōmetria	geōmetriae

Related terms

• geōmetrēs
• geōmetricus

Descendants

• Asturian: xeometría
• Catalan: geometria
• English: geometry
• Esperanto: geometrio
• Galician: xeometría
• Hungarian: geometria
• Italian: geometria
• Sicilian: giumitrìa
• Spanish: geometría
• Polish: geometria
• Portuguese: geometria
• Slovak: geometria

References

• “geometria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “geometria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • mathematics: mathematica (-ae) or geometria (-ae), geometrica (-orum) (Tusc. 1. 24. 57)
    

Occitan

Pronunciation

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Noun

geometria f (plural geometrias)

1. geometry

Related terms

• geometric

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin geōmetria. By surface analysis, geo- +‎ -metria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛ.ɔˈmɛ.trja/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtrja
• Syllabification: ge‧o‧me‧tria

Noun

geometria f (related adjective geometryczny)

1. (geometry) geometry

Declension

Declension of geometria

	singular
nominative	geometria
genitive	geometrii
dative	geometrii
accusative	geometrię
instrumental	geometrią
locative	geometrii
vocative	geometrio

Further reading

• “geometria”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “geometria”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin geometria, from Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒe.o.meˈtɾi.ɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒe.o.meˈtɾi.ɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒe.o.meˈtɾi.a/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʒju.mɨˈtɾi.ɐ/

Noun

geometria f (plural geometrias)

1. (mathematics) geometry (branch of mathematics dealing with spatial relationships)

Further reading

• “geometria”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “geometria” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “geometria”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Slovak

Etymology

From Latin geometria, from Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡeɔmetria/, [ˈɡeɔmetria]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: ge‧o‧met‧ri‧a

Noun

geometria f (relational adjective geometrický)

1. geometry

Declension

Declension of geometria
(pattern ulica)

	singular
nominative	geometria
genitive	geometrie
dative	geometrii
accusative	geometriu
locative	geometrii
instrumental	geometriou

Further reading

• “geometria”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026