Where does “runcination” come from?

runcination (English) comes from Latin runcina, from Ancient Greek ῥυκάνη — plane, a tool for smoothing wood.

runcination (English): An operation in any dimension that cuts a regular polytope at its faces, its edges and its vertices, creating a new facet in place of each face, each edge and each vertex

Definitions

  1. An operation in any dimension that cuts a regular polytope at its faces, its edges and its vertices, creating a new facet in place of each face, each edge and each vertex

Ancestry of “runcination”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinruncinaplane
2Ancient Greekῥυκάνηplane, a tool for smoothing wood

Words derived from “runcination”

Every word from Ancient Greek ῥυκάνη →