numerous

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnuməɹəs/, /ˈnumɹəs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnjuːməɹəs/, /ˈnjuːmɹəs/

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• Hyphenation: nu‧mer‧ous, num‧erous

Etymology

From Middle English numerous from Latin numerōsus (“numerous, abundant; harmonious”), from numerus (“number”). Doublet of numerose.

Adjective

numerous (comparative more numerous, superlative most numerous)

1. Indefinitely large numerically, many.
   • 2012 March-April, Allen, Colin, “Do I See What You See?”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, United States: Sigma Xi, ISSN 0003-0996, OCLC 645082957, page 168:

     Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.

   There are numerous definitions of the word 'man'.

Synonyms

• many, multiple; see also Thesaurus:manifold

Derived terms

• overnumerous
• supernumerous
• unnumerous

 

Translations

Indefinitely large numerically

• Arabic: عَدِيد‎ (ʿadīd), كَثِير‎ (ar) (kaṯīr)
• Armenian: բազմաթիվ (hy) (bazmatʿiv)
• Azerbaijani: çoxsaylı
• Belarusian: шматлі́кі (šmatlíki)
• Bulgarian: многобро́ен (bg) (mnogobróen), многочи́слен (bg) (mnogočíslen)
• Catalan: nombrós (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 眾多 (zh), 众多 (zh) (zhòngduō), 多 (zh) (duō)

• Czech: četný (cs), početný (cs)
• Danish: talrig
• Dutch: talrijk (nl), ontelbaar (nl), numereus
• Egyptian: (ꜥšꜣ)
• Esperanto: multnombra
• Estonian: arvukas
• Finnish: lukuisa (fi)
• French: nombreux (fr)
• Galician: numeroso
• Georgian: ურიცხვი (uricxvi), უამრავი (uamravi), დიდძალი (didʒali)
• German: zahlreich (de), vielzählig
• Hebrew: רַב‎ (he) (rav)
• Hungarian: számos (hu), nagyszámú (hu)
• Icelandic: fjölmargur
• Interlingua: numerose
• Irish: líonmhar
• Italian: numeroso (it)
• Japanese: 多数の (ja) (たすうの, tasū no), 多い (ja) (おおい, ōi)
• Korean: 수많다 (ko) (sumanta), 다수의 (ko) (dasuui)

• Latin: numerōsus, frequens, creber
• Latvian: daudzskaitlīgs
• Lithuanian: gausus
• Low German:

  German Low German: tahlriek, tallriek

• Macedonian: многуброен (mnogubroen), броен (broen)
• Maori: makiu, tini makiu, maruru, maha, ngeangea, huhua, tini whāioio, mahamaha, tīpatere, makehua, tini makehua
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tallrik (no)

  Nynorsk: talrik

• Old English: getælfull
• Polish: liczny (pl)
• Portuguese: numeroso (pt)
• Romanian: numeros (ro)
• Russian: многочи́сленный (ru) (mnogočíslennyj)
• Sanskrit: बहु (sa) (bahu)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бро̑јан, мно̏гобро̄јан

  Roman: brȏjan (sh), mnȍgobrōjan (sh)

• Slovak: početný
• Slovene: številen, številčen
• Spanish: numeroso
• Swedish: talrik (sv)
• Ukrainian: багаточи́сельний (bahatočýselʹnyj), числе́нний (uk) (čyslénnyj)
• Vietnamese: đông (vi), nhiều (vi)