hypotenuse

See also: Hypotenuse and hypoténuse

English

Etymology

From Latin hypotenusa, from Ancient Greek ὑποτείνουσα (hupoteínousa, “sustaining”), active participle of ὑποτείνω (hupoteínō, “subtend, stretch under”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /haɪˈpɒtənjuːz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /haɪˈpɑt̬ənjus/

Alternative forms

• hypothenuse

Noun

hypotenuse (plural hypotenuses)

1. (geometry) The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

Translations

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle

• Arabic: وَتَر‏‎ (ar) m (watar)
• Armenian: ներքնաձիգ (hy) (nerkʿnajig)
• Catalan: hipotenusa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斜邊 (zh), 斜边 (zh) (xiébiān)

• Czech: přepona (cs) f
• Danish: hypotenuse c
• Dutch: hypotenusa (nl) m, f, schuine zijde m, f
• Finnish: hypotenuusa (fi)
• French: hypoténuse (fr) f
• Galician: hipotenusa f
• German: Hypotenuse (de) f
• Greek: υποτείνουσα (el) f (ypoteínousa)
• Hebrew: יתר‏‎ m (yéter)
• Hungarian: átfogó (hu)
• Icelandic: langhlið f
• Ido: hipotenuzo (io)
• Indonesian: hipotenusa (id)

• Italian: ipotenusa (it) f
• Japanese: 斜辺 (しゃへん, shahen)
• Korean: 빗변 (bitbyeon)
• Macedonian: хипотенуза f (hipotenúza)
• Malay: garis sendeng, hipotenus
• Persian: وتر‏‎ (fa)
• Polish: przeciwprostokątna f
• Portuguese: hipotenusa (pt) f
• Romanian: ipotenuză (ro) f
• Russian: гипотену́за (ru) f (gipotenúza)
• Serbo-Croatian: hipotenuza (sh) f
• Spanish: hipotenusa (es) f
• Swedish: hypotenusa (sv) c
• Tagalog: gilis
• Turkish: hipotenüs (tr)
• Ukrainian: гіпотенуза f (gipotenúza)
• Vietnamese: cạnh huyền

See also

• cathetus