English
icosidodecahedronicosidodecahedron
From icosi- + dodeca- + -hedron.
A compound of icosi- + dodeca- + -hedron
Proto-Indo-European *dwi- ‘two’
Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ ‘ten’
Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)wídḱm̥ti ‘twenty’
Proto-Hellenic *ewī́kəti
Ancient Greek εἴκοσι ‘twenty’
English icosi-
Proto-Indo-European *dwoΗdeḱm̥
Ancient Greek δώδεκα ‘twelve’
English dodeca-
Today it means
noun An Archimedean solid with thirty-two regular faces (twelve pentagons and twenty triangles).
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Etymograph / icosidodecahedron
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