The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromῥόμβος
- Latin · derived fromrhombus
- Portuguese · borrowed fromrumo
- Spanish · borrowed fromrumbo
- English todayrhumb
Borrowed from Spanish rumbo or Portuguese rumo, from Latin rhombus, from Ancient Greek ῥόμβος (rhómbos). Doublet of rhomb and rhombus.
Words from the same roots
Latinrhombus all →
rhombusrhomb
Ancient Greekῥόμβος all →
rhombusrhombrhombos
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.