diametros

diametros

1. plural of diametro

• diameter m
• diametrus m

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): [d̪iˈaː.me.t̪ros], [d̪i.aˈmɛt̪.ros]

diametros f (genitive diametrī); second declension

1. diameter
2. from a diametric position, opposite

e.g. Cornelius a Lapide: Commentarii in Sacram Scripturam, Tomus X, Lugduni, apud Pelagaud et Lesne, MDCCCXI: Apocalypsin, Chapter 20, p 1309, left column, third paragraph body:

Ita ipse; sed haec ex diametros pugnant cum verbis et mente S. Joannis, aeque ac cum rerum eventu, et cum fide orthodoxa.

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