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Latin
Etymology
From computō (“to reckon”) + -tōrium (locational or instrumental substantivization), neuter of -tōrius. In the medieval attestations, likely a mechanical rendering of the early Romance equivalent of modern French comptoir into proper Latin; in the New Latin sense, translates English computer.
Pronunciation
Noun
computātōrium n (genitive computātōriī or computātōrī); second declension
- (Medieval Latin) counter, compter (various inanimate senses)
- table, desk or chest for counting (or keeping) money
- token used for keeping count
- room or house for counting (accounting)
- (England) compter, sheriff's court or prison
- Synonym: (Medieval Latin, less common) computārium
- (New Latin) computer (reckoning device)
- Synonyms: (New Latin) computātrum, ōrdinātrum, ōrdinātōrium
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- computatorium 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)
- “computatorius”, “computatorium”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011