numerate
English
Etymology 1
From Latin numerātus, perfect past participle of numerō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix, of participial origin)). 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)
- (transitive) to count
Synonyms
- (count): count, enumerate, number; see also Thesaurus:count
Translations
count
Etymology 2
From Latin numerus + -ate (adjective-forming suffix), by analogy with literate.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnjuːməɹət/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) enPR: no͞oʹmə-rĭt, IPA(key): /ˈnuːməɹət/
Adjective
numerate (comparative more numerate, superlative most numerate)
- 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.
Translations
having the ability to understand numbers and perform arithmetic
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References
- ^ “numerate”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- ^ “numerate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
Italian
Verb
numerate
- inflection of numerare:
- second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person plural imperative
- feminine plural past participle
Latin
Participle
numerāte
- vocative masculine singular of numerātus
Spanish
Verb
numerate