The story
- Late Latin · borrowed fromoperandum
- English todayoperand
From Late Latin operandum. By surface analysis, operate + -and. Doublet of operandum.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
operand
Today it means: A quantity to which an operator is applied (in 3-x, the operands of the subtraction operator are 3 and x). Full definition →
Late Latin operandum