pyramidal

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin pȳramidālis.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pĭ-rămʹĭ-dəl IPA^(key): /pɪˈɹæm.ɪ.dl̩/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /p(ɪ)rəˈmɪɖəl/

Adjective

pyramidal (not comparable)

1. (geometry) Pyramid-shaped.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     At one point was an isolated pyramidal rock, crowned by a great tree, which appeared to be separated by a cleft from the main crag.

   • 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752:

     Below is the deep abyss of the Lauterbrunnen valley, and at its head a stately semi-circle of mountains, with the pyramidal Lauterbrunnen Breithorn as the centre-piece.

   • 2023 March 22, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Grand buildings on the list... and lost: Greenock Princes Pier”, in RAIL, number 979, page 52:

     Among its attractive features were decorative, tile-hung Italianate towers with pyramidal roofs.

   1. (crystallography) Tetragonal.

Derived terms

• bipyramidal
• dipyramidal
• extrapyramidal
• infrapyramidal
• interpyramidal
• intrapyramidal
• nonpyramidal
• obpyramidal
• parapyramidal
• pyramidal cell
• pyramidalism
• pyramidalize
• pyramidalized
• pyramidally
• pyramidal neuron
• pyramidal number
• pyramidal tract
• subpyramidal
• superpyramidal
• suprapyramidal
• tetrapyramidal

Translations

pyramid-shaped

Catalan: piramidal Czech: pyramidový Dutch: piramidaal (nl) French: pyramidal (fr) German: pyramidenförmig (de) Greek: πυραμιδικός (el) m (pyramidikós) Hungarian: piramidális (hu) Italian: piramidale (it) Latin: pȳramidālis Polish: piramidalny (pl) Portuguese: piramidal (pt) Russian: пирамида́льный (ru) (piramidálʹnyj) Serbo-Croatian: pȉramidālan (sh) Spanish: piramidal Swedish: pyramidal (sv), pyramidformad Tagalog: tagiluin, gunong Volapük: piramidik (vo)

Noun

pyramidal (plural pyramidals)

1. (anatomy) One of the carpal bones.

Derived terms

• peripyramidal

Related terms

• cuneiform

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.ʁa.mi.dal/

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Adjective

pyramidal (feminine pyramidale, masculine plural pyramidaux, feminine plural pyramidales)

1. pyramidal

Derived terms

• vente pyramidale

Related terms

• pyramide

Further reading

• “pyramidal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.