Keskuspisteestä

Keskuspisteestä is Finnish, functioning as the elative case form of keskuspiste, meaning “from the center point.” It is used to indicate origin, reference, or starting point in various contexts. The compound keskuspiste combines keskus (center) and piste (point), and in Finnish the elative suffix -stä/-stä is attached to the whole compound, yielding keskuspisteestä.

In practice, keskuspisteestä appears in descriptions of geometry, design, navigation and other fields where something is referenced relative to a central point. For example, radii or lines can be described as emanating from the center: keskuspisteestä säteet lähtevät ympyrästä. Distances or measurements may be stated as taken from the center: keskuspisteestä mitattiin etäisyyksiä. The phrase can also occur in more general descriptive language, such as “keskuspisteestä katsottuna” meaning “as seen from the center.”

Linguistically, keskuspisteestä illustrates Finnish compounding and case inflection. It demonstrates how a compound noun is treated as a unit for the elative case, rather than inflecting individual components separately. Related terms include keskuspiste (center point), piste (point), and elatiivi, the case category to which -stä/-stä belongs in Finnish grammar.

See also: keskuspiste, piste, keskus, elatiivi.