radius
RAY-dee-uhs · noun
LatinEnglish
Origin
Radius comes straight from Latin radius, meaning "ray." English borrowed it whole, keeping both its spelling and its geometric sense.
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Related words
Radius is a doublet of ray — the two words descend from the same Latin root but arrived in English by different paths.
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