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Where does “hexatetrahedron” come from?

hexatetrahedron (English) comes from English tetrahedron, from Ancient Greek τετράεδρον, from Ancient Greek τετράεδρος, from Ancient Greek -ός, from Proto-Hellenic *-os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

hexatetrahedron (English): A cube truncated by two tetrahedra

Definitions

  1. A cube truncated by two tetrahedra

Ancestry of “hexatetrahedron”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtetrahedronA polyhedron with four faces; the regular...
2Ancient Greekτετράεδρονtriangle-based pyramid
3Ancient Greekτετράεδρος—
4Ancient Greek-ός—
5Proto-Hellenic*-os—
6Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
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