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ἀριθμός

Pronunciation: /a.ritʰ.mós/

“ἀριθμός” is an Ancient Greek word. Its 20 meanings in English:

noun

  1. amount, sum
  2. term in a series
  3. number, account, rank
  4. quantity, amount (of a material, gold, money, time)
  5. numbered or countable item (in a series or list), item; piece (of a wrecked ship); mere entity, cipher (to a person)
  6. taking account or evaluation; regard (for a woman); reckoning (by a person's words)
  7. numbering, counting
  8. arithmetic
  9. abstract number
  10. number
  11. numeral
  12. science of numbers, arithmetic, calculation
  13. mathematical unit or aggregate of units, number (as odd or even); (as underlying the organisation of time and space); (as the cause of being and generation);(existing as an ideal entity, opp. as a mathematical object)
  14. rhythm
  15. numerical sum, number, total number (of persons, animals, things)
  16. numerical measurement (of the configuration of speech, reference to rhythm)
  17. collection (of individuals forming a group), number, company (of men, envoys, disciples)
  18. military unit (= Latin numerus)
  19. degrees moved traversed in a given time
  20. precise condition

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ri-dʰh₁-mó-s, from *h₂rey- (“to count, arrange”). Cognates include Old Irish rím, Old English rīm (English rhyme), and perhaps Latin rītus. Also compare νήριτος (nḗritos, “countless”).

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