Etymology

numerics

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Today it means: The field of numerically-controlled engineering. Full definition →

English numeric ← French numérique ← Latin numerus
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The story

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

From numeric + -ics.

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