Halbkugel

German

Etymology

halb (“half”) +‎ Kugel (“sphere”), a loan translation of Latin hemisphaerium, attested in scientific or technical literature from ca. the 1790s.

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Noun

Halbkugel f (genitive Halbkugel, plural Halbkugeln)

  1. hemisphere, half of any sphere

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