Etymology

-hedral

Today it means: Forms adjectives referring to solid figures bounded by a certain number of planes (polyhedra). Full definition →

Ancient Greek ἕδρα
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromἕδρα“face of a geometrical solid”
  2. English today-hedral

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἕδρα (hédra, “face of a geometrical solid”) + -al.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekἕδρα all →

-hedronhexecontahedronholohedral

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