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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
verbhistorical form
calculate
To determine mathematically or estimate, borrowed from a Latin family built around counting with pebbles.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗nouncontrarian claim
calculator
A person or device that calculates, inherited from a medieval human-reckoner word and the Latin counting-pebble family.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗nounhistorical form
icon
An image, likeness, representative figure, or display symbol, borrowed through Late Latin from Greek eikōn.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗adjectivehistorical form
intelligent
Having or showing understanding, judgment, or mental capacity; borrowed from the Latin participle of intellegere.
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
calculate
to compute, determine, estimate, or plan
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- 1542–today
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Latin / Indo-European
calculāre
to count, reckon, compute
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- Latin antiquity and Late Latin
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Medieval Latin / Indo-European
calculātus
counted, reckoned, computed
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- Late Latin
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Middle English / Indo-European
calkelatour
one who counts or computes; a mathematician
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- Middle English, 14th–15th centuries
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
icon
image, likeness, representative symbol, or computer-display symbol
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- 1572–today
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
intelligent
having or showing understanding, judgment, or mental capacity; later also computer-guided
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- circa 1540–today
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SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 2
resolvedestablishedposition text
Was a calculator originally a machine?
No. The reviewed English history begins with Middle English calkelatour, a person who counted or computed; the machine inherits that human agent label.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Are the sacred image, celebrity, and computer icon different etymological words?
No. They are semantic extensions within the image-and-likeness family; the later uses do not create separate ancestors.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 1
RANK 185GRADE Aranked reveal
A calculator was a person before it was a device.
Middle English calkelatour named someone who counted or computed. The machine later inherited the human arithmetic agent's title.
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