levymäisen

Levymäisen is a Finnish adjective meaning sheet-like or plate-like, used to describe objects or formations with a flat, broad, plate-like shape. The form levymäisen is the genitive singular of levymäinen, and it appears in phrases where the noun it accompanies is in the genitive case (for example, levymäisen kerroksen pituus or levymäisen kiven rakenne).

Etymology and usage notes

Levymäinen combines levy, meaning plate or sheet, with the suffix -mäinen, which turns the noun into an adjective meaning “like a plate.” In technical or descriptive writing, levymäinen is common in fields such as geology, mineralogy, biology, and architecture to characterize forms that resemble flat plates or sheets. The genitive singular levymäisen is used when modifying a noun in genitive, as in levymäisen kiven tai levymäisen kerroksen.

Examples of use

In geology, one might write: levymäisen kerroksen pituus on viisi senttimetriä, meaning the length of the sheet-like layer is five centimeters. In mineralogy or paleontology: levymäisen rakenteen esiintyminen viittaa levymaisesti jakautuneisiin osiin. In descriptive biology: levymäisen muotoiset solukalvot voivat erottua mikroskoopissa.

Related forms

Levymäinen is the base adjective; other inflected forms align with Finnish noun declension. The term is primarily descriptive and scientific, and in everyday Finnish it appears mainly in technical or formal descriptions of shapes and structures.

See also

Related shape descriptors in Finnish include levynomainen (plate-like) and laatamainen (sheet-like in some contexts).