The Arabic name al-Khwārizmī was heavily Latinized as Algoritmi / algorismus; the initial article was absorbed into the form.
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algorismus
arithmetic; computation with Hindu-Arabic numerals
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PARENT / EARLIER FORM / attestedClassical Arabic · 9th centuryal-Khwārizmī
the Khwārizmian; name of Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
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A scholar's geographic name came to denote the arithmetic associated with transmitted texts.
Latin arithmetic texts circulated from the 12th century.
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Algorithm — Word HistoryArabic al-Khwārizmī
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Algorism — Word HistoryMedieval Latin algorismus from Arabic al-khuwārizmi
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Documents the eponymic borrowing.
Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics: AALGORITHM entry
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Latin arithmetic transmission.
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