pyramis

From Latin pȳramis, from Ancient Greek πυραμίς (puramís).

pyramis (plural pyramides)

1. (obsolete) A pyramid.
   • 1636, Peter Ramus, Peter Bedwell, transl., The Way To Geometry: [Being Necessary and Usefull for Astronomers, Enginees, Geographers,. Architects, Land-meaters, Carpenters, Sea-men & Etc.]‎, pages 277-278:

     And from hence also shall be the geodesy of the Icosaedrum. For the finding out of the heighth of the pyramis, there is the semidiagony of the side of the decangle and the halfe ray of the circle: But the side of the decangle is a right line subtending the halfe periphery of the side of the quinquangle, or else the greater segment of the ray proportionally cut.

   • 1838, Alexander Crawford Lindsay Crawford, Letters on Egypt, Edom, and the Holy Land‎, volume 1, page 95:

     For as a Pyramis, beginning at a point, by little and little dilateth into all parts […]

From Ancient Greek πυραμίς (puramís).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpyː.ra.mis/, [ˈpyː.ra.mɪs]

pȳramis f (genitive pȳramidis or pȳramidos); third declension

1. a pyramid

• → English: pyramid
• → French: pyramide
• → Galician: pirámide
• → Italian: piramide
• → Portuguese: pirâmide
• → Spanish: pirámide

• pyramis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pyramis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pyramis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pyramis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• pyramis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pyramis in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016