Etymology

numeric

mu·mer·ic
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Today it means: Of or relating to numbers, especially the characters 0 to 9. Full definition →

French numérique ← Latin numerus ← Proto-Italic *nomezos
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*nem-
  2. Proto-Italic*nomezos
  3. Latinnumerus
  4. Frenchnumérique
  5. English todaynumeric

Borrowed from French numérique.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.