computacioun
Appearance
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French computation or its etymon Latin computātiō (“computation”), from computō (“to compute”); compare counten.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]computacioun (uncountable) (Late Middle English)
- Computation, calculation (of time or in arithmetic or astronomy).
- Enumeration; the act of calculating quantity.
Descendants
[edit]- English: computation
References
[edit]- “compūtāciǒun, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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- Late Middle English
- enm:Astronomy
- enm:Arithmetic
- enm:Time