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The corpus record

ῥομβοειδής

romboeides

rhombus-shaped, rhomboidal

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What it meant — LSJ

rhombus-shaped, rhomboidal, rhomboid

rhombus-shaped, rhomboidal, Hp. Art. 35, Str. 2.1.22, etc.; ῥ. σχῆμα rhomboid, i.e. a four-sided figure with only the opposite sides and angles equal, Euc. 1 Def. 22, Ph. Bel. 52.30, Ptol. Alm. 7.5, cf. Hegesand. 37; τὸ ῥ. στερεόν (v. ῥόμβος B. 1b) Simp. in Cael. 410.5:—τὸ ῥ., a place at Megara, Plu. Thes. 27.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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