Etymology

outnumber

O1U1T1N1U1M3B3E1R1

Today it means: To be more in number than somebody or something. Full definition →

English number ← Middle English nombre ← Anglo-Norman noumbre
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úd
  2. Proto-Germanic*ūt
  3. Proto-Germanic*ūt-
  4. Old Englishūt-
  5. Middle Englishut-
  6. Englishout-
  7. Latinnumerus
  8. Anglo-Normannoumbre
  9. Middle Englishnombre
  10. Englishnumber
  11. English todayoutnumber

From out- + number.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.