zenzic

The story

1. Italian · derived fromcenso“property”
2. German · borrowed fromzenzi“square (of a number)”
3. New Latin · borrowed fromzenzicus
4. English todayzenzic

From New Latin zenzicus, zensicus, from zensus, Germanized from census / German zenzi (“square (of a number)”), from Italian censo (“property”), used in Medieval times to denote the algebraic square based on a translation of Arabic مَال (māl, “property, assets, estate; (obsolete) algebraic square”).