hemicyclium

Definitiones

1. half circle, semicircle
   declension-2
2. semicircular recess with seats
   declension-2
3. semicircular public place furnished with rows of seats for learned discussions
   declension-2
4. semicircular kind of sundial
   declension-2

Aequivalentia

25 more languages

Azərbaycan diliyarımdairə

Българскиполукръг

Bosanskipolukrugполукруг

Catalàsemicercle

Cymraeghanner cylch

DeutschHalbkreis

Ελληνικάημικύκλιο

Suomipuoliympyrä

עבריתחֲצִי עִגּוּל

Hrvatskipolukrugполукруг

Magyarfélkör

Հայերենկիսաշրջան

Italianoemiciclolunettasemicerchio

日本語半円

한국어반원

Latinasemicirculus

Nederlandssemicirkel

Polskipółkolepółokrąg

Portuguêssemicírculo

Românăsemicerc

Русскийполукругполуокружность

Српскиpolukrugполукруг

Svenskahalvcirkel

ไทยครึ่งวงกลม

Українськапівколо

Exempla

“Rectus hic hippodromi limes in extrema parte hemicyclio frangitur mutatque faciem”

Here, the straight boundary of the hippodrome is broken and changes its appearance at the far end with a semicircular shape

“domi in hemicyclio sedentem”

I sat at home in the semicircular alcove

“Statuam habet Praeneste in superiore fori parte circa hemicyclium”

It has a statue in Praeneste, in the upper part of the forum, around the semicircular area

“Hemicyclium excavatum ex quadrato ad enclimaque succisum Berosus Chaldaeus dicitur invenisse”

The excavated semicircular sundial, shaped from a square to a sloping form, is said to have been invented by the Chaldean Berosus

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