pyramis

English

Etymology

From Middle English piramis, from Latin pȳramis, from Ancient Greek πυραμίς (puramís).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪɹəmɪs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

pyramis (plural pyramides)

1. (obsolete) A pyramid.
   • 1636, Peter Ramus, translated by Peter Bedwell, The Way To Geometry: [Being Necessary and Usefull for Astronomers, Enginees, Geographers,. Architects, Land-meaters, Carpenters, Sea-men & Etc.]‎, pages 277–278:

     And from hence also shall be the geodesy of the Icosaedrum. For the finding out of the heighth of the pyramis, there is the semidiagony of the side of the decangle and the halfe ray of the circle: But the side of the decangle is a right line subtending the halfe periphery of the side of the quinquangle, or else the greater segment of the ray proportionally cut.

   • 1838, Alexander Crawford Lindsay Crawford, Letters on Egypt, Edom, and the Holy Land‎, volume 1, page 95:

     For as a Pyramis, beginning at a point, by little and little dilateth into all parts […]

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πυραμίς (puramís).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpyː.ra.mɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpiː.ra.mis]

Noun

pȳramis f (genitive pȳramidis or pȳramidos); third declension

1. a pyramid

Declension

Third-declension noun (non-Greek-type or Greek-type, normal variant).

	singular	plural
nominative	pȳramis	pȳramidēs pȳramides
genitive	pȳramidis pȳramidos	pȳramidum
dative	pȳramidī	pȳramidibus
accusative	pȳramidem pȳramida	pȳramidēs pȳramidas
ablative	pȳramide	pȳramidibus
vocative	pȳramis pȳrami1	pȳramidēs pȳramides

¹In poetry.

Descendants

• → English: pyramid
• → French: pyramide
• → Galician: pirámide
• → Italian: piramide
• → Portuguese: pirâmide
• → Spanish: pirámide

References

• “pyramis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pyramis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "pyramis", 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)
• “pyramis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pyramis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pyramis in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016