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WORD DOSSIERS
nounexact headword
algorism
The older English word for calculation with Hindu-Arabic numerals, transmitted through French and Medieval Latin from the name al-Khwārizmī.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗nounhistorical-form prefix
algorithm
A finite or stepwise procedure, descended through medieval arithmetic vocabulary from the Latinized name of al-Khwārizmī.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗024
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
algorism
calculation with Hindu-Arabic numerals; an arithmetic rule or procedure
- DATE
- early 13th century–today
- MATCH
- exact historical form
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Old French / Indo-European
algorisme / augorisme
the art of reckoning with Hindu-Arabic numerals
- DATE
- Old French, 12th–14th centuries
- MATCH
- historical-form prefix
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Middle English / Indo-European
algorisme / augrim
arithmetic using Hindu-Arabic numerals
- DATE
- 14th–15th centuries
- MATCH
- historical-form prefix
- DOSSIERS
- 2
Medieval Latin / Indo-European
algorismus
arithmetic; computation with Hindu-Arabic numerals
- DATE
- 12th–15th centuries
- MATCH
- historical-form prefix
- DOSSIERS
- 2
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SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 3
openprobableexact word
Does the English record begin in the 13th or 14th century?
The reviewed reports differ. Etymonline gives an early-thirteenth-century algorism; Merriam-Webster gives a fourteenth-century first-known-use horizon.
openprobableexact word
Did English algorism arrive through French or directly from Medieval Latin?
The sources preserve both channels. Merriam-Webster names Middle French and Medieval Latin; Etymonline emphasizes Old French from Medieval Latin.
resolvedestablishedexact word
Was algorithm the original form and algorism a corruption?
No. Algorism is older. Algorithm is the later altered form, with its th commonly explained through Greek arithmos or arithmetic influence.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 2
RANK 73GRADE Aexact ranked word
Algorithm is the altered version; algorism came first.
The word began in al-Khwārizmī's geographic name. Greek arithmos later helped put “th” into algorithm without becoming its ancestor.
RANK 190GRADE Aranked reveal
Algorithm began as a person's geographic name.
Al-Khwārizmī—“the man from Khwārizm”—became Medieval Latin arithmetic, then modern procedure.
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Merriam-Webster source-reported English record
algorism / algorism / 14th century
Algorism — Word Historyexact attested form / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexicographic first use
Middle English lexicographic first-use record for algorism
algorisme / augrim / algorithm / 14th century
Algorism — Word Historyattested-form prefix / OPEN RECORD ↗06
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