Etymology

semiperimeter

S1E1M3I1P3E1R1I1M3E1T1E1R1

Today it means: Half of the perimeter (sum of the lengths of the sides) of a polygon. The term is typically applied to triangles, cyclic quadrilaterals, and regular polygons. Full definition →

English perimeter ← Latin sēmi- ← Proto-Indo-European *sēmi
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sēmi
  3. Latinsēmi-
  4. Englishsemi-
  5. Englishperimeter
  6. English todaysemiperimeter

From semi- + perimeter.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.