/ɹɒm/, /ɹɒmb/, /ɹʌmb/
OriginPartly borrowed from Middle French rhombe and partly from its etymon Latin rhombus, from Ancient Greek ῥόμβος (rhómbos). Doublet of rhombus and rhumb.
- A rhombus.
“Their Ideas are perpetually converſant in Lines and Figures. If they would, for example, praiſe the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they deſcribe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipſe”
“The four-sided pyramid, perhaps the most frequent of all natural crystals, is called in architecture a dogtooth; its use is quite limitless, and always beautiful: the cube and rhomb are almost equally”
“A circumference on a blackboard, a rectangular triangle, a rhomb, are forms which we can fully intuit;”
- A rhombohedron.
Formsrhombs(plural)