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from Latin "aequare", "to make equal" equator: æquator: aequator (BrE - obsolete) The name is derived from medieval Latin word aequator, in the phrase circulus aequator diei et noctis, meaning 'circle equalizing day and night', from the Latin word aequare meaning 'make equal'. equilateral: æquilateral: aequilateral (BrE - obsolete) from Latin ...
5 A: Resembles an upside-down V. Also said to equal 500. 6 ↅ Either from a ligature of VI, or from digamma (ϛ), the Greek numeral 6 (sometimes conflated with the στ ligature). [48] 7 S, Z: Presumed abbreviation of septem, Latin for 7. 9.5 X̷: Scribal abbreviation, an x with a slash through it. Likewise, IX̷ represented 8.5 11 O
U u : Latin letter u , originally the same letter as v W w : Latin letter w , descended from u Ỽ ỽ : Middle Welsh v v with diacritics: Ṽ ṽ Ṿ ṿ Ʋ ʋ ᶌ [9] IPA-specific symbols related to v : ⱱ ʋ ᶹ : Modifier letter small v with hook is used in phonetic transcription [9] 𐞰 : Modifier letter small v with right hook is a ...
The Words of the Year usually reflect events that happened during the years the lists were published. For example, the Word of the Year for 2005, 'integrity', showed that the general public had an immense interest in defining this word amid ethics scandals in the United States government, corporations, and sports. [ 1 ]
pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words). (a) = acronym, e.g.: SARS – (a) severe acute respiratory syndrome (i) = initialism, e.g.: CD – (i) compact disc
It is also found in a number of western European accounts of the Greek alphabet written in Latin during the early Middle Ages. One of them is the work De loquela per gestum digitorum , a didactic text about arithmetics attributed to the Venerable Bede , where the three Greek numerals for 6, 90 and 900 are called "episimon", "cophe" and ...
The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. [2] [3] It was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, [4] and is the earliest known alphabetic script to have developed distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants. [5]
The total number is then used as a metaphorical bridge to other words evaluating the equal number, [2] which satisfies isos or "equal" in the term. Ancient Greeks used counting boards for numerical calculation and accounting, with a counter generically called psephos ('pebble'), analogous to the Latin word calculus , from which the English ...