The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμᾰθημᾰτῐκός
- Latin · derived frommathēmaticus
- Old French · derived frommathematique
- Middle English · inherited frommathematik
- English todaymathematic
From Middle English mathematik, from Old French mathematique or directly from Latin mathēmaticus, from Ancient Greek μᾰθημᾰτῐκός (măthēmătĭkós), from μάθημα (máthēma, “learning; mathematics”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”, adjective suffix).
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.