arithmetica

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀριθμητική (τέχνη) (arithmētikḗ (tékhnē), “(art of) counting”), feminine of ἀριθμητικός (arithmētikós, “arithmetical”), from ἀριθμός (arithmós, “number, counting”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ri-dʰh₁-mó-s, form of *h₂rey- (“to count, reason”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.ritʰˈmeː.ti.ka/, [ärɪt̪ʰˈmeːt̪ɪkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.ritˈme.ti.ka/, [ärit̪ˈmɛːt̪ikä]

Noun

arithmētica f (genitive arithmēticae); first declension

1. (mathematics) arithmetic

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	arithmētica	arithmēticae
Genitive	arithmēticae	arithmēticārum
Dative	arithmēticae	arithmēticīs
Accusative	arithmēticam	arithmēticās
Ablative	arithmēticā	arithmēticīs
Vocative	arithmētica	arithmēticae

Related terms

• arithmeticus

Descendants

• Catalan: aritmètica
• Medieval Latin: arismetica
• Italian: aritmetica
• Old French: arismetique
  • → English: arithmetic
  • French: arithmétique
• Portuguese: aritmética
• Romanian: aritmetică
• Spanish: aritmética

See also

• Disquisitiones Arithmeticae on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la

References

• “arithmetica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “arithmetica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• arithmetica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • arithmetic: arithmetica (-orum)
    
• “arithmetica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “arithmetica”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin