isosceles
adjective
Example Sentences
Phil Anastasia, Philly.com, 26 May 2017 Word History
borrowed from Late Latin isoscelēs, borrowed from Greek isoskelḗs "having equal legs, (of a triangle) having two equal sides, (of numbers) divisible into equal parts, even," from iso- iso- + -skelēs, adjective derivative of skélos (neuter s-stem) "leg," going back to an Indo-European base *skel- "bent," whence also Armenian šeł "slanting, crooked"; with o-grade, Greek skoliós "bent, crooked, askew, devious"; perhaps with a velar extension Germanic *skelga-/*skelha-, whence Old English sceolh "oblique, wry," Old Frisian skilich "squinting," Old High German skelah "crooked, oblique," Old Icelandic skjalgr "wry, oblique"
Note: The Indo-European etymon is also conventionally compared with Latin scelus "misfortune resulting from the ill will of the gods, curse, wicked or accursed act, crime, villainy," a neuter s-stem that appears to match exactly Greek skélos, though if "crime" is secondarily developed from a sense "misfortune," with religious connotations, a connection with crookedness is less likely.
1551, in the meaning defined at sense 1