square (polygon) · square (object in which the dominant surface is square-shaped) · square (the second power of a number)
çekim: çoğul quadrados
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese quadrado, from Latin quadrātus (“squared”), perfect passive participle of quadrō (“to make square”), from quadrus (“square”), from quattuor (“four”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.
aile: ao quadrado, quadradinho, quadrado mágico, quadrado perfeito
square (polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral) · crib, place (home, especially a flat)
çekim: çoğul kwadraty · tamlayan kwadratu
eş: druga potęga
köken: Etymology tree Latin quadrātuslbor. Polish kwadrat Learned borrowing from Latin quadrātus.
square (polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles) · ellipsis of neliömetri (“square meter”) · square (product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself) (also used in compounds for names of square units)
çekim: çoğul neliöt · tamlayan neliön
köken: neljä (“four”) + -iö. Coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot in 1845.
square (polygon) · square (the second power in exponentiation) · squared
çekim: çoğul négyzetek
köken: From the numeral négy (“four”) + -zet (noun-forming suffix). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.
Probably from Chinese 平方 (píngfāng, literally "flat square", "flat" because it accounts for 2 dimensions only). Compare 立方 (rippō, “cube”, literally "standing square", accounting for the third dimension). First attested in Japanese in a text from 1875.