The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀπόθεμα“deposit”
- English todayapothem
From Ancient Greek ἀπόθεμα (apóthema, “deposit”), from ἀπό (apó, “off, away”) + θέμα (théma, “that which is laid down”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
apothem
Today it means: The perpendicular distance from the center of a circle to a chord of the same circle. Full definition →
Ancient Greek ἀπόθεμα