NODE / 0107attestedPresent-Day English

calculate

to compute, determine, estimate, or plan

DATE: 1542–today
SENSE: default
FAMILY: Indo-European / Germanic
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Medieval Latin · Late Latin

calculātus

counted, reckoned, computed

SOUND: English borrowed the learned participial stem with regular English stress and suffix treatment.
MEANING: Counting and reckoning broadened into estimation, intention, and deliberate planning.
CHRONOLOGY: First known English use: 1542.
SCHOLAR: Merriam-Webster editors
CONFIDENCE: established

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SOURCE-REPORTEDlexicographic first useestablished

1542

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DIRECTLY INSPECTEDprinted bookestablished

1704

The CHIMES entry in John Harris’s Lexicon technicum uses calculate in instructions about clock-chime numbers.

CHIMES of any Clock; How to calculate Numbers for them, and to fit and divide the Chime Barrel: See in Watch-work.

calculate dossier · recorded as calculate

ETH-Bibliothek Zürich · Rar 98 Ex.A GF, content image 2867225WITNESS RECORD ↗Lexicon technicum: or, an universal English dictionary of arts and sciences ↗FACSIMILE ↗

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