numerate

English

Etymology 1

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *nem-
Proto-Italic *nomezos
Latin numerus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
Proto-Italic *-ājō
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin numerō
Latin numerātusbor.
English numerate

    From Latin numerātus, perfect past participle of numerō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix, of participial origin)).[1] By surface analysis, Latin numerus +‎ -ate.

    Pronunciation

    • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnjuːməɹeɪt/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
    • (US) enPR: no͞oʹmə-rāt, IPA(key): /ˈnuːməɹeɪt/

    Verb

    numerate (third-person singular simple present numerates, present participle numerating, simple past and past participle numerated)

    1. (transitive) To count.
    Synonyms
    Derived terms
    Translations

    Etymology 2

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *nem-
    Proto-Italic *nomezos
    Latin numerus
    Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
    Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
    Proto-Indo-European *-tós
    Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
    Proto-Italic *-ātos
    Latin -ātuslbor.
    English -ate
    English numerate

      From Latin numerus +‎ -ate (adjective-forming suffix), by analogy with literate.[2][3][4] Coined with numeracy in 1959 by the UK Committee on Education, presided over by Sir Geoffrey Crowther.[4]

      Pronunciation

      • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnjuːməɹət/
      • Audio (Southern England):(file)
      • (US) enPR: no͞oʹmə-rĭt, IPA(key): /ˈnuːməɹət/

      Adjective

      numerate (comparative more numerate, superlative most numerate)

      1. Having numeracy.
        Antonyms: innumerate, dyscalculic
        Hypernym: competent
        Coordinate term: literate
        • 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 8:
          In these days when the age of pulse was giving way to the age of tone. When the epoch of analogue (which was to say also of the richness of language, of analogy) was giving way to the digital era, the final victory of the numerate over the literate.
        • 2026 July 25, Attracta Mooney, quoting Penny Endersby, “Lunch with the FT: Penny Endersby”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
          They [asset managers] might not be very altruistic, but they're very rational, they are very numerate and they think long term, and any of those things drive you to making sensible choices about adaption and risk and the climate.
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      Etymology 3

      From Middle English numerat, numerate, from Latin numerātus, perfect past participle of numerō (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix, of participial origin)).[5]

      Adjective

      numerate (not comparable)

      1. (obsolete) Numbered; counted.
        • 1623 (compiled 1750–1751), “Genealogy of the Oliphants”, in James Toshach Clark, editor, compiled by Walter MacFarlane, Genealogical Collections Concerning Families in Scotland, […] (Publications of the Scottish History Society; 34), volume II, Edinburgh: […] [A]t the University Press by T[homas] and A[rchibald] Constable for the Scottish History Society, published 1900, →OCLC, page 114:
          Which Ratification foresaid is granted by Laurence Lord Oliphant and his Foresaids upon the saids Earle’s paying in numerate Money to the said Lord at the Date thereof the Sum of Twenty Nine Thousand Seven Hunder and 24 Mercks Scots […]
        • 1659–1660, Thomas Stanley, “[Of Physick.] Chap[ter] XVIII. Of Number.”, in The History of Philosophy, the Third and Last Volume, […], volume III, London: […] Humphrey Moseley, and Thomas Dring, […], →OCLC, 4th part (Containing the Sceptick Sect), pages 88–89:
          Now if the Monads are equall in number to all numerate things, of which the word One is prædicated, by participation of which Monads every particular is ſaid to be one, there will be infinite Monads thus participated.
        • 1745 October 28 (Gregorian calendar), Charles Prince of Wales [i.e., Charles Edward Stuart], “A Plea betwixt Kingston and Maclauchlan”, in The Scots Magazine, volume XIV, Edinburgh: W[illiam] Sands, A[lexander] Murray, and J[ames] Cochran, published April 1752, →OCLC, page 187, column 1:
          Whereas Patrick Hepburn of Kingſton, in the county of Haddington, hath advanced to us, by the hands of Col. Lauchlan Maclauchlan of that Ilk, the ſum of 740 l. Sterling, in numerate money of Britain; […]

      References

      1. ^ “numerate, v.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
      2. ^ “numerate”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.
      3. ^ “numerate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
      4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 “numerate, adj.2”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
      5. ^ “numerate, adj.1”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

      Anagrams

      Italian

      Verb

      numerate

      1. inflection of numerare:
        1. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
        2. second-person plural imperative
        3. feminine plural past participle

      Latin

      Participle

      numerāte

      1. vocative masculine singular of numerātus

      Spanish

      Verb

      numerate

      1. second-person singular voseo imperative of numerar combined with te
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