cuboidal

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Etymology tree

English cube

Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.

Latin -o-

Proto-Indo-European *weyd-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *wéydos

Proto-Hellenic *wéidos

Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-ēs

Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)

Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)

Latin -oīdēslbor.

English -oid

English cuboid

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālisbor.

Old French -albor.

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Latin -ālis

Old French -elbor.

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Latin -ālisbor.

Middle English -al

English -al

English cuboidal

From cuboid + -al.

cuboidal (comparative more cuboidal, superlative most cuboidal)

Resembling a cube.
The alveolar cells are cuboidal in shape.
- 1958 September, Anthony A. Vickers, “The Winchburgh Shale Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 613:
  The Winchburgh Shale Line is of 2 ft. 6 in. gauge. The surface trucks or tubs are cuboidal metal boxes mounted on unsprung four-wheeled chassis.
(geometry) Of, pertaining to, or having the shape of a cuboid.
A cuboidal block was formed.
(microanatomy) Of or pertaining to an epithelium with cells whose height and width are approximately the same (cube shaped).
Coordinate terms: squamous, columnar