trapezia
- plural of trapezium.
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The figures inscribed and circumscribed to the segment are made up of such narrow strips and have a saw-like edge; all the elements are trapezia except two, which are triangles, one in each figure.
From Archimedes Men of Science by Heath, Thomas Little
And let all quadrilaterals other than these be called trapezia.
From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene
