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WORD DOSSIERS
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ATTESTED / RECONSTRUCTED / BOUNDARY
HISTORICAL FORMS
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
calculator
one who calculates; later especially a calculating machine or electronic device
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- 14th century–today
- MATCH
- exact historical form
- DOSSIERS
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Latin / Indo-European
calculātor
a teacher of arithmetic; a calculating person
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- Latin antiquity and Late Latin
- MATCH
- exact historical form
- DOSSIERS
- 1
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CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 2
openproposedexact word
Does calculator securely descend beyond Latin calculus to calx?
The calculator-to-calculare-to-calculus chain is established, but the traditional calculus-to-calx derivation is proposed. A possible shared Mediterranean substrate source remains a competing route.
resolvedestablishedexact word
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.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 1
RANK 185GRADE Aexact ranked word
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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BOOKS / DICTIONARIES / ARTICLES / DATABASES
SOURCES
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
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