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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin mathēmatica (“mathematics”), from Ancient Greek μαθηματικός (mathēmatikós, “mathematical”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌmaː.teːˈmaː.ti.kaː/
- Hyphenation: ma‧the‧ma‧ti‧ca
- Rhymes: -aːtikaː
Noun
mathematica f (uncountable)
- (formal) mathematics
- Synonyms: mathematiek, wiskunde
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Descendants
Interlingua
Noun
mathematica (plural mathematicas)
- mathematics
- Secundo Jamblicho, le mathematica es le medio per qual le anima da unitate a lo diverse e es capabile de rationalisar le ordine de lo sensibile.
- According to Iamblichus, mathematics is the medium by which the soul gives unity to the diverse and is capable of perceiving by reason the order of the sensory.
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From mathēmaticus (“mathematical”), from Ancient Greek μαθηματικός (mathēmatikós, “fond of learning”), from μάθημα (máthēma, “knowledge, learning”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mathēmatica f (genitive mathēmaticae); first declension
- mathematics
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
Descendants
References
- mathematica 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)
- mathematica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- mathematics: mathematica (-ae) or geometria (-ae), geometrica (-orum) (Tusc. 1. 24. 57)