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gĕōmē^trĭcus

gĕōmē^trĭcus · adj

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What it meant

gĕōmē^trĭcus — Lewis & Short

gĕōmē^trĭcus, a, um, adj., = gewmetriko/s,

I of or belonging to geometry, geometrical: geometricum quiddam explicare, Cic. Div. 2, 59, 122: quaedam de dimensione, id. Tusc. 1, 24, 57: formae, id. Rep. 1, 17: rationes, id. Ac. 2, 36, 117.—
II Subst.
A gĕōmē^trĭcus, i. m., a geometer, geometrician: reprehensi a geometricis sunt historici, Quint. 1, 10, 40 Spald. N. cr.
B gĕōmē^trĭce, ēs, f., geometry, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 76; Vitr. 10, 11, 2.—
C gĕōmē^trĭ-ca, ōrum, n., geometry: geometrica discere, Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 20: aliquem interrogare quaedam geometrica de dimensione quadrati, id. Tusc. 1, 24, 57.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.