isthmus

Significado (Inglés)

1. A narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, and connecting two larger landmasses.
2. Any such narrow part connecting two larger structures.
3. An edge in a graph whose deletion increases the number of connected components of the graph.

Conceptos

istmo

Sinónimos

neck

band

defile

gap

gorge

gulch

journey

notch

pass

strait

mountain pass

col

cove

Traducciones

istmo

isthme

Landenge

istmo

Isthmus

istme

ισθμός

landengte

Landbrücke

berzah

kıstak

برزخ

istmus

isthmus

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈɪsθ.məs/

Etimología (Inglés)

Cognado con nórdico antiguo: eið

In summary

Borrowing from Latin isthmus (“a strip of land between two seas”), from Ancient Greek ῐ̓σθμός (ĭsthmós, “neck, narrow passage”), possibly from εἶμῐ (eîmĭ, “to go”). Cognate to Old Norse eið (“isthmus”).