numerus

See also: Numerus

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin numerus.

Noun

numerus

1. (grammar) grammatical number

Declension

Inflection of numerus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative		numerus	numerukset
genitive		numeruksen	numerusten numeruksien
partitive		numerusta	numeruksia
illative		numerukseen	numeruksiin
		singular	plural
nominative		numerus	numerukset
accusative	nom.	numerus	numerukset
	gen.	numeruksen
genitive		numeruksen	numerusten numeruksien
partitive		numerusta	numeruksia
inessive		numeruksessa	numeruksissa
elative		numeruksesta	numeruksista
illative		numerukseen	numeruksiin
adessive		numeruksella	numeruksilla
ablative		numerukselta	numeruksilta
allative		numerukselle	numeruksille
essive		numeruksena	numeruksina
translative		numerukseksi	numeruksiksi
instructive		—	numeruksin
abessive		numeruksetta	numeruksitta
comitative		—	numeruksineen

Possessive forms of numerus (type vastaus)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	numerukseni	numeruksemme
2nd person	numeruksesi	numeruksenne
3rd person	numeruksensa

Synonyms

• kieliopillinen luku

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Latin

Etymology

By rhotacism from Proto-Italic *nomezos, from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to assign, allot; take”). Cognate with Ancient Greek νέμω (némō, “to distribute”), Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌽 (niman, “to take”), Latvian ņemt (“to take”) and Old Irish nem (“gift”).

The grammatical sense is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ἀριθμός (arithmós).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnu.me.rus/, [ˈnʊmɛrʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnu.me.rus/, [ˈnuːmerus]

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Noun

numerus m (genitive numerī); second declension

1. number

   inire numerum/rationem ― to count

2. collection, quantity
   • Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 6.14:

     Magnum ibi numerum versuum ediscere dicuntur.

     They are said there to learn by heart a great quantity of verses.

3. (figuratively) rank, position

   in numerō habēre ― to rank

4. (music) time, rhythm
5. (grammar) number

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	numerus	numerī
Genitive	numerī	numerōrum
Dative	numerō	numerīs
Accusative	numerum	numerōs
Ablative	numerō	numerīs
Vocative	numere	numerī

Derived terms

• numerābilis
• numerālis
• numerārius
• Numeria
• numerius
• numerō
• numerōsus

 

Related terms

• numerātiō
• numerātor
• numerātus
• numerōsē
• numerōsitās
• numerōsiter

 

Descendants

• Eastern Romance
  • Romanian: număr
• Gallo-Italic
  • Piedmontese: nùmer
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Italian: novero
• Old French: nonbre, nombre, noumbre, numbre, nunbre
  • French: nombre
  • Sicilian: nùmmiru, nùmmaru
    • → Maltese: numru
  • → Middle Dutch: nommer
    • Dutch: nummer
      • Afrikaans: nommer
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: nombru
      • Petjo: nummer
      • → Indonesian: nomer
      • → Sranan Tongo: nomru
      • → Trió: numuru
      • → West Frisian: nûmer
    • Limburgish: nómmer
  • → Middle English: nombre
    • English: number (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: nummer
• Old Occitan: nombre
  • Catalan: nombre
  • Occitan: nombre
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: numar
  • Ladin: numer
  • Romansch: numer, nomer
• Sardinian: númeru, númunu
• Venetian: nùmaro
• West Iberian
  • Navarro-Aragonese: [Term?]
    • Aragonese: nombre
  • Old Portuguese: [Term?]
    • Portuguese: nombro

Borrowings

• → Albanian: numër
• → Asturian: númberu
• → Proto-Brythonic: *niβ̃er (see there for further descendants)
• → Catalan: número
• → Czech: numero
• → English: numero
• → Finnish: numero, numerus
• → Galician: número
• → German: Numerus
• → Italian: numero
  • → French: numéro
    • Haitian Creole: nimewo
  • → German: Numero, Nummer (see there for further descendants)
  • → Luxembourgish: Nummero, Nummer
  • → Ottoman Turkish: نومرو‎ (nümero), نومره‎ (nümera)
    • Turkish: numara
  • → Yiddish: נומער‎ (numer)
• → Middle Irish: nuimir, uimir
  • Irish: uimhir
• → Mirandese: númaro
• → Portuguese: número
• → Spanish: número
  • → Hiligaynon: numero
  • → Karao: nomiro
  • → San Juan Atzingo Popoloca: númērō
  • → Tagalog: numero

Unsorted borrowings

• → Azerbaijani: nömrə
• → Belarusian: нумар (numar)
• → Bulgarian: номер (nomer)
• → Bengali: নম্বর (nômbôr)
• → Central Dusun: numbul
• → Egyptian Arabic: نمره‎ (nímra)
• → Greek: νούμερο (noúmero)
• → Gujarati: નંબર (nambar)
• → Central Dusun: numbul
• → Kazakh: нөмір (nömir)
• → Kyrgyz: номер (nomer)
• → Latvian: numurs
• → Persian: نمره‎ (nomre)
• → Russian: но́мер (nómer) (see there for further descendants)
• → Turkmen: nomer
• → Uyghur: نومۇر‎ (nomur)

See also

• nummus

References

• “numerus”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• “numerus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• numerus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• numerus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • perfect in every detail: omnibus numeris absolutus (N. D. 2. 13)
    
  • arithmetic: numeri (-orum)
    
  • a master-piece of classical work: opus omnibus numeris absolutum
    
  • poetical rhythm: numerus poetice vinctus
    
  • the tune; rhythm: numerus, numeri
    
  • to make a speech rhythmical: numeris orationem astringere, vincire
    
  • to be regarded as a god: numerum deorum obtinere (N. D. 3. 20)
    
  • to deify a person: aliquem in deorum numerum referre, reponere
    
  • to place a person's name on the list of the proscribed: in proscriptorum numerum referre aliquem (Rosc. Am. 11. 32)
    
  • (ambiguous) to differ qualitatively not quantitatively: genere, non numero or magnitudine differre
    
  • (ambiguous) to consider as a god: aliquem in deorum numero referre
    
  • (ambiguous) an ordinary, average Roman citizen: unus e togatorum numero
    
  • (ambiguous) to erase a person's name from the list of the proscribed: e proscriptorum numero eximere aliquem
    
• “numerus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “numerus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti