Etymology

non-count

Today it means: Uncountable. Full definition →

English count ← Middle English counten ← Anglo-Norman counter
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Englishnon-
  2. Latincomputō
  3. Anglo-Normancounter
  4. Middle Englishcounten
  5. Englishcount
  6. English todaynon-count

From non- + count.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.