The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
DODECAHEDRON
dodecahedron
(noun) any polyhedron having twelve plane faces
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
dodecahedron (plural dodecahedra or dodecahedrons)
(geometry) A polyhedron with twelve faces; the regular dodecahedron has regular pentagons as faces and is one of the Platonic solids.
Synonym: duodecahedron
Source: Wiktionary
Do*dec`a*he"dron, n. Etym: [Gr. dodécaèdre.] (Geom. & Crystallog.)
Definition: A solid having twelve faces.
Note: The regular dodecahedron is bounded by twelve equal and regular pentagons; the pyritohedron (see Pyritohedron) is related to it; the rhombic dodecahedron is bounded by twelve equal rhombic faces.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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