cilinder

• cylinder (superseded)

Borrowed from French cylindre or directly from Latin cylindrus (“roller, cylinder”), from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros, “a cylinder, roller, roll”)," from κυλίνδω (kulíndō, “to roll”). Doublet of kalander.

• IPA^(key): /ˌsiˈlɪn.dər/

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• Hyphenation: ci‧lin‧der
• Rhymes: -ɪndər

cilinder m (plural cilinders, diminutive cilindertje n)

1. cylinder (geometric three-dimensional solid shape)
2. certain objects of (roughly) cylindrical shape, e.g. a top hat
3. cylinder (of an engine)

(all may have a superseded spelling -cylinder-)

• Afrikaans: silinder
• → Caribbean Javanese: slènder
• → Indonesian: silinder

From German Zylinder, from Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡silindɛr]
• Hyphenation: ci‧lin‧der
• Rhymes: -ɛr

cilinder (plural cilinderek)

1. (engineering) cylinder (a cylindrical part)

   Synonym: henger

2. top hat (a man's formal hat, with a tall cylindrical crown)

   Synonym: kürtőkalap

3. (dialectal, slightly archaic) glass chimney, chimney (the glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp)

   Synonym: lámpaüveg

4. (computing) cylinder (the corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity)
5. (pathology) urinary cast, renal cast, renal cylinder (a microscopic cylindrical structure produced by the kidney and present in the urine in the case of some diseases)

• cilinder in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• cilinder in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).