Etymology

circumcenter

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Today it means: The center of a circumcircle (the circle that passes through every vertex of a given triangle or other cyclic polygon). Full definition →

English center ← Middle English center ← Middle French centre
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)ker-
  2. Ancient Greekκίρκος (kírkos)
  3. Latincircus
  4. Latincircum
  5. Latincircum-
  6. Englishcircum-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*ḱen-?
  8. Proto-Indo-European*ḱéntrom
  9. Proto-Hellenic*kéntron
  10. Ancient Greekκέντρον (kéntron)
  11. Latincentrum
  12. Middle Frenchcentre
  13. Middle Englishcenter
  14. Englishcenter
  15. English todaycircumcenter

From circum- + center.

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