abscisse

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin abscissa, an ellipsis of abscissa līnea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ap.sis/

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Noun

abscisse f (plural abscisses)

1. (mathematics) abscissa (the x coordinate in Cartesian coordinates)

   Coordinate terms: ordonnée, cote

   l’axe des abscisses ― the x-axis

   La courbe coupe l’axe des ordonnées en un point d’abscisse égal à 2.

   The curve intersects the y-axis at a point with an abscissa of 2.

Descendants

• → Turkish: apsis

Further reading

• “abscisse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Participle

abscisse

1. vocative masculine singular of abscissus

Norwegian Bokmål

A point in the Cartesian plane; x is the abscissa.

Etymology

From Latin abscissa (linea) (“cut (line)”), from abscissus (“torn off, cut off”), perfect passive participle of abscindō (“I tear away; divide”), from both ab- (“from, away from, off”), from ab (“from, away from, on, in”), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”) + and from scindō (“I cut, tear; divide”), from Proto-Italic *skindō (“to cut, tear, rend, separate”), from Proto-Indo-European *skinédti ~ *skindénti (“to be cutting off”), from *skeyd- (“to split, to divide”) (with the infix *-né-), an extension of *skey- (“to split, dissect”) (perhaps with *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”)), from *sek- (“to cut, cut off, sever”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abˈsɪsːə/, /apˈsɪsːə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪsːə
• Hyphenation: ab‧scis‧se

Noun

abscisse m (definite singular abscissen, indefinite plural abscisser, definite plural abscissene)

1. (geometry, mathematics) the x coordinate in Cartesian coordinates; abscissa

   Antonym: ordinat

   • 1898, Naturen:

     ordinaterne repræsenterer thermometrets grader, abscisserne aarets maaneder

     the ordinates represent the degrees of the thermometer, the abscissas the months of the year

Derived terms

• abscisseakse (“abscissa axis”)

Descendants

• → Northern Sami: abskissa

See also

• koordinat (“coordinate”)

References

• “abscisse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “abscisse” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “abscisse” in Store norske leksikon