PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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The calculator-to-calculare-to-calculus chain is established, but the traditional calculus-to-calx derivation is proposed. A possible shared Mediterranean substrate source remains a competing route.
/ˈkælkjəˌleɪtər/ · noun
A person or device that calculates, inherited from a medieval human-reckoner word and the Latin counting-pebble family.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Documents the traditional calx route and the possible common-source alternative.
Etymology noteDocuments the irregularity of treating calculus as a straightforward diminutive of calx.
Etymology noteThe reviewed evidence does not yet warrant collapsing the competing or incomplete analyses into one secure answer.