Etymograph

English

pyramidal

Pyramidal comes from Latin pȳramis ‘a pyramid’, and goes back to Ancient Greek πυραμίς.

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπυραμίς‘pyramid’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpȳramis‘a pyramid’
  3. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500pȳramidālis
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500piramidal
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1912pyramidal

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπυραμίς‘pyramid’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpȳramis‘a pyramid’
  3. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500pȳramidālis
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500piramidal
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1912pyramidal

Earliest quotation: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘It’s Just the very Biggest Thing in the World’: “At one point was an isolated pyramidal rock, crowned…”

Equivalent to pyramid + -al

Ancient Greek πῡραμίς

Latin pȳramis

Old French piramide

French pyramide

English pyramid

Every English word from Ancient Greek πυραμίς

Today it means

adj Pyramid-shaped.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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