Lenné-Dreieck

German

das Lenné-Dreieck

Etymology

Named for Prussian gardener and landscape architect Peter Joseph Lenné the Younger (1789–1866).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɛˈne ˈdʁaɪ̯ˌ.ɛk/
  • Hyphenation: Len‧né Drei‧eck

Proper noun

Lenné-Dreieck n (proper noun, genitive Lenné-Dreiecks or (optionally with an article) Lenné-Dreieck)

  1. (history) Lenné Triangle (the gore delineated by the Bellevue-, Ebert-, and Lennéstraßen which, between 1961 and 1988, was part of the German Democratic Republic de jure, but was separated from it by the Berlin Wall, which ran along the Ebertstraße)

Declension

Descendants

  • English: Lenné Triangle (partial calque)
  • Russian: треуго́льник Ленне́ (treugólʹnik Lenné) (partial calque)

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