computatorium
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Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kom.pu.taːˈtoː.ri.um/, [kɔmpʊt̪äːˈt̪oːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kom.pu.taˈto.ri.um/, [komput̪äˈt̪ɔːrium]
Noun
[edit]computātōrium n (genitive computātōriī or computātōrī); second declension
- (Medieval Latin) counter, compter (various inanimate senses)
- (New Latin) computer (reckoning device)
- Synonyms: (New Latin) computātrum, ōrdinātrum, ōrdinātōrium
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | computātōrium | computātōria |
Genitive | computātōriī computātōrī1 |
computātōriōrum |
Dative | computātōriō | computātōriīs |
Accusative | computātōrium | computātōria |
Ablative | computātōriō | computātōriīs |
Vocative | computātōrium | computātōria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
[edit]- 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 [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
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