diametros

diametros

1. plural of diametro

• diameter (“especially in medical terminology”)
• diametrus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek διάμετρος (diámetros, “diameter”), from δῐᾰ- (dĭă-, “through, across”) +‎ μέτρον (métron, “measure”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [diˈa.mɛ.trɔs], [di.aˈmɛt.rɔs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [diˈaː.me.tros], [di.aˈmɛt.ros]

diametros f (genitive diametrī); second declension

1. diameter

   diameter trānsversa et longitūdinālis ― transverse and longitudinal diameter

   diameter rēcta/conjugāta, oblīqua et trānsversa ― (pelvic measurements)

2. diametric position, opposite
   • (Can we date this quote?), Cornelius a Lapide, “MDCCCXI: Apocalypsin, Chapter 20, p 1309”, in Commentarii in Sacram Scripturam, Tomus X, Lugduni, apud Pelagaud et Lesne:

     Ita ipse; sed haec ex diametrō pugnant cum verbīs et mente S. Joannis, aeque ac cum rērum ēventū, et cum fidē orthodoxā.

     Thus of themselves; but these out of a diametrical position fights with the words and mind of S. John, and equally with matters of the events, and with the orthodox faith.

Second-declension noun (Greek-type).

• “diametros”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “diametros”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• https://glosbe.com/la/en/diametros