Etymograph

English

perimeter

Perimeter comes from Latin perimetros.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEperimetros
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2002perimeter

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEperimetros
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2002perimeter

Earliest quotation: 2002, Frank Tenaille, Chicago: “In 1977, Papa Wemba decided to change the name…”

Formed from peri- + meter

Proto-Indo-European *per- ‘before’

Proto-Indo-European *peri ‘in crossing’

Ancient Greek περί ‘about, around’

English peri-

Middle English metere ‘one who measures, measurer’

English meter

Every English word from Latin perimetros

Today it means

noun The sum of the distance of all the lengths of the sides of an object.

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