radius

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See also: Radius, RADIUS, and radíus

English[edit]

The radius of a circle, shown in red

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin radius (“ray”). Doublet of ray.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • enPR: rā'-dē-əs, IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪ.di.əs/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪdiəs
  • Hyphenation: ra‧di‧us

Noun[edit]

radius (plural radii or radiuses)

  1. (anatomy) The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.
  2. (zoology) The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal.
  3. (entomology) One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the subcosta and the media; the vein running along the costal edge of the discal cell.
  4. (geometry) A line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center.
    Fatima claims to have visited all the bars within a five-mile radius of her Manhattan apartment.
  5. (geometry) The length of this line segment.
  6. Anything resembling a radius, such as the spoke of a wheel, the movable arm of a sextant, or one of the radiating lines of a spider's web.

Synonyms[edit]

  • (vein of insect wing): R

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Crimean Tatar[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin radius.

Noun[edit]

radius

  1. radius (line segment or length of this line segment)

Declension[edit]

Declension of radius
nominative radius
genitive radiusnıñ
dative radiusqa
accusative radiusnı
locative radiusta
ablative radiustan

References[edit]

  • Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎[1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Danish[edit]

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin radius.

Noun[edit]

radius c (singular definite radien or radiusen, plural indefinite radier or radiuser)

  1. (geometry) radius

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Esperanto[edit]

Verb[edit]

radius

  1. conditional of radii

Faroese[edit]

Noun[edit]

radius m (genitive singular radius, plural radiusar)

  1. (geometry) radius

Declension[edit]

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin radius. Doublet of rai, which was inherited.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

radius m (plural radius)

  1. (anatomy) radius

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Ido[edit]

Verb[edit]

radius

  1. conditional of radiar

Indonesian[edit]

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia id

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin radius.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /raˈdiʊs/
  • Hyphenation: ra‧di‧us

Noun[edit]

radius (first-person possessive radiusku, second-person possessive radiusmu, third-person possessive radiusnya)

  1. radius:
    1. (mathematics) a line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center; the length of this line segment.
      Synonym: jari-jari
    2. (anatomy) the long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.
      Synonym: pengumpil
  2. area of a circle, commonly with epicenter as center.

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Of uncertain origin. Some connect it with rādīx and rāmus. Tucker suggests Proto-Indo-European *neredʰ- (“extend forth, rise, outward”) akin to Sanskrit वर्धते (vardhate, “rise, grow”), or from Ancient Greek ἄρδις (árdis, “sharp point”).[1] May ultimately be from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁t- (“bar, beam, stem”).

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Noun[edit]

radius m (genitive radiī or radī); second declension

  1. a staff, rod
    1. a spoke of a wheel
    2. a rod for measurement
    3. the radius of a circle; a rotating radial arm
    4. (weaving) a shuttle
    5. (poetic) a bolt or shaft
    6. the spur of a bird's leg
    7. the tail-spine of a stingray
    8. (anatomy) the radius (the outer bone of a forearm)
  2. a ray of light (also reflected)
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.717:
      At pater Hēliadum radiōs ubi tīnxerit undīs
      But when the father of the Heliades shall have dipped his rays in the waves [...].
      (The father is the sun god; see: Heliades.)
    1. (according to an ancient theory of vision) a ray extending from the eye to the object seen
  3. the name of an elongated variety of olive
  4. the name of a rod with which geometers make figures in dust, also known as a virga

Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative radius radiī
Genitive radiī
radī1 		radiōrum
Dative radiō radiīs
Accusative radium radiōs
Ablative radiō radiīs
Vocative radie radiī

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

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Learned borrowings

References[edit]

  1. ^ Tucker, T.G., Etymological Dictionary of Latin, Ares Publishers, 1976 (reprint of 1931 edition).

Further reading[edit]

  • “radius” on page 1731 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
  • “radius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “radius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • radius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • radius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • “radius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “radius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin radius.

Noun[edit]

radius m (definite singular radien or radiusen, indefinite plural radier, definite plural radiene)

  1. (geometry) radius

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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin radius.

Noun[edit]

radius m (definite singular radiusen, indefinite plural radiusar, definite plural radiusane)

  1. (geometry) radius

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Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French radius, Latin radius. Compare the inherited doublet rază (“ray”).

Noun[edit]

radius n (plural radiusuri)

  1. (anatomy) radius (bone)

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