The story
- Latin · derived fromtriangulum“triangle”
- English todayTriangulum Australe
Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. From Latin triangulum (“triangle”) + australe (“southern”).
Words from the same roots
Latintriangulum all →
triangleTriangulum
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.