cathetus

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From Latin cathetus, from Ancient Greek κάθετος (káthetos, “perpendicular”).

33 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: ضلع قائم — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Armenian: էջ (ēǰ) — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Asturian: catetu — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Azerbaijani: katet — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Catalan: catet — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Chinese Mandarin: 鄰邊 /邻边 (línbiān) — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Czech: odvěsna — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Danish: katete — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Dutch: rechthoekszijde — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Faroese: stuttsíða — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Finnish: kateetti — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• French: cathète — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Galician: cateto — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• German: Kathete — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Hebrew: נִצָּב (nitzáv) — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Hungarian: befogó — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Icelandic: skammhlið — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Ido: kateto — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Italian: cateto — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Japanese: 隣辺 (rinpen) — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Khmer: កាតែត (kaataet) — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Macedonian: кате́та (katéta) — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Norwegian: katet — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Polish: przyprostokątna — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Portuguese: cateto — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Russian: ка́тет (kátet) — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Serbo-Croatian: кате́та — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Serbo-Croatian: katéta — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Slovak: odvesna — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Spanish: cateto — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Swedish: katet — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Thai: ด้านประกอบมุมฉาก (dâan-bprà-gɔ̀ɔp-mum-chàak) — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse
• Vietnamese: cạnh góc vuông — either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse