Etymology

cossist

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Today it means: A practitioner of proto-algebra in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe. Full definition →

Italian cossista
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  1. Italian · borrowed fromcossista
  2. English todaycossist

From Italian cossista, from the word cosa (“thing”), in reference to an unknown quantity to be determined + -ista. See rule of coss.

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