pyramis

From Middle English piramis, from Latin pȳramis, from Ancient Greek πυραμίς (puramís).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪɹəmɪs/

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pyramis (plural pyramides)

1. (obsolete) A pyramid.
   • 1636, Peter Ramus, translated by Peter Bedwell, The Way To Geometry: [Being Necessary and Usefull for Astronomers, Enginees, Geographers,. Architects, Land-meaters, Carpenters, Sea-men & Etc.]‎, pages 277–278:

     And from hence also shall be the geodesy of the Icosaedrum. For the finding out of the heighth of the pyramis, there is the semidiagony of the side of the decangle and the halfe ray of the circle: But the side of the decangle is a right line subtending the halfe periphery of the side of the quinquangle, or else the greater segment of the ray proportionally cut.

   • 1838, Alexander Crawford Lindsay Crawford, Letters on Egypt, Edom, and the Holy Land‎, volume 1, page 95:

     For as a Pyramis, beginning at a point, by little and little dilateth into all parts […]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πυραμίς (puramís).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpyː.ra.mis/, [ˈpyːrämɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ra.mis/, [ˈpiːrämis]

pȳramis f (genitive pȳramidis or pȳramidos); third declension

1. a pyramid

Third-declension noun (non-Greek-type or Greek-type, normal variant).

¹In poetry.

• → English: pyramid
• → French: pyramide
• → Galician: pirámide
• → Italian: piramide
• → Portuguese: pirâmide
• → Spanish: pirámide

• “pyramis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pyramis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pyramis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pyramis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pyramis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pyramis in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016