Etymology

statistics

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Today it means: A discipline, principally within applied mathematics, concerned with the systematic study of the collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data. Full definition →

German Statistik ← New Latin statisticum ← Italian statista
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statistics · noun1

  1. Italian · derived fromstatista“statesman, politician”
  2. New Latin · derived fromstatisticum“of the state”
  3. German · borrowed fromStatistik
  4. English todaystatistics

From German Statistik, from New Latin statisticum (“of the state”) and Italian statista (“statesman, politician”), compare English statist. Statistik introduced by Gottfried Achenwall (1749), originally designated the analysis of data about the state.

statistics · noun, verb2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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