zenzic
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From New Latin zenzicus, zensicus, from zensus, Germanized from census / German zenzi (“square (of a number)”), from Italian censo (“property”), used in Medieval times to denote the algebraic square based on a translation of Arabic مَال (māl, “property, assets, estate; (obsolete) algebraic square”).[1][2]
Adjective
[edit]zenzic (not comparable)
Related terms
[edit]- zenzizenzic (fourth power)
- zenzizenzizenzic (eighth power)
- zenzizenzizenzizenzike (sixteenth power)
Translations
[edit]relating to the square of a number
References
[edit]- ^ John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “†ˈzenzic, a. and n.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN: “ad[aptation of]. mod[ern].L[atin]. zenzicus, zens-, f[rom]. zensus, Germanized f[rom]. census […], transl[ating]. Arab[ic]. māl […]. Cf. It[alian]. censo […].”
- ^ Michael Quinion (April 10, 1999) “Zenzizenzizenzic”, in World Wide Words: “This [zenzic] was borrowed from German […]. They got it from the medieval Italian word censo, which is a close relative of the Latin census. The Italians […] used censo to translate the Arabic word mál […].”