Science & TechnologyGreek → English
Cylinder
A solid or hollow shape with straight sides and circular ends.
The Greek roots
κύλινδρος
kýlindros
roller
Literally: “a roller”
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The story of the word
From the verb 'to roll' — a cylinder is quite literally the shape that rolls.
The same roots elsewhere
Other languages reached for exactly the same Greek pieces.
In a sentence
The engine's fourth cylinder had misfired.