geometer

From Middle English gemeter, geometer, ultimately from Late Latin geōmetrēs, from Ancient Greek γεωμέτρης (geōmétrēs), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) + μετρέω (metréō, “to measure”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiˈɑm.ə.tɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dʒiːˈɒm.ɪ.tə/

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geometer (plural geometers)

1. A mathematician who specializes in geometry.
   • 1999, Joseph-Marie Montmasson, Invention and the Unconscious, page 56:

     But this idea, which is a general postulate in all demonstrations, has been taken for granted by every algebrician and geometer.

2. (zoology) Any species of geometrid moth (family Geometridae).

• (mathematician): geometrician, geometrist

Learned borrowing from Latin geōmetra. First attested in the 15th century.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /ɡɛɔmɛtɛr/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ɡɛɔmɛtɛr/

geometer m animacy unattested

1. (hapax legomenon) geometer (land surveyor)

   Synonym: miernik

   • 1908 [XV], Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Towarzystwa Naukowego Warszawskiego, volume VIII, pages 2, 38:

     Geometer, [...] myernik

     [Geometer, [...] miernik]

• Polish: geometra

• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “geometer”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• K. Nitsch, editor (1958), “geometer”, in Słownik staropolski (in Polish), volume 2, Wrocław, Kraków, Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences, page 409
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “geometer”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN