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START / NODE 504Present-Day Englishmid-13th century–today
arithmetic
The art or practice of counting and calculation; transmitted from Greek arithmos “number” through Latin and French.
“Arithmetic did not descend from algorithm, and algorithm did not descend from arithmetic. Greek arithmos influenced algorithm's later spelling while the two words retained different ancestors.”OPEN COMPLETE WORD DOSSIER ↗
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Present-Day Englisharithmetic
the art, practice, or branch of mathematics concerned with numbers and calculation
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Middle English · Middle English, mid-13th–15th centuryarsmetike / arsmetrikarithmetic or the art of computation
- SOUND CHANGE
- Middle English arsmetike / arsmetrik is respelled arithmetic under renewed alignment with Latin and Greek.
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- The counting art remains arithmetic while its domain broadens within modern mathematics.
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- Sources differ between a mid-thirteenth-century and fifteenth-century English horizon.
2 CITATIONSArithmetic — Definition, Word History, and First Known UseWord History: Middle English arsmetrik; First Known Use Arithmetic — Origin and historyHeadword history: mid-13th-century arsmetike; spelling corrected in early 16th century AUDIT CANONICAL EDGE 470 ↗
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