arithmetician
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French arithmeticien; equivalent to arithmetic + -ian.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /əˌɹɪθməˈtɪʃ(ə)n/
- Hyphenation: arith‧me‧tic‧ian
Noun edit
arithmetician (plural arithmeticians)
- (now rare) One with expertise in arithmetic; a mathematician.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 1:
- [F]or certes, ſayes he, / I haue already choſen my officer, and what was he? / Forſooth, a great Arithmeticion, [...]
- 1613, Richard Brathwait, The Yong Mans Gleanings[1], page 1:
- I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed, and he reduceth thy dayes into a short number: The daies of Man are threescore and ten.
- 1695, [William] Congreve, Love for Love: A Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act IV, scene vi, page 59:
- But I'll tell you one thing; it's a Question that would puzzle an Arithmetician, if you ſhould ask him, whether the Bible ſaves more Souls in Weſtminſter-Abby, or damns more in Weſtminſter-Hall: […]
- 1774, David Garrick, A Christmas Tale[2], Part 2, Scene 1, page 13:
- Bonoro. What said he? / Tycho. That he would say but three words and follow me. I heard him say a hundred, and sing a thousand: Lovers are bad arithmeticians.
- 1860, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “Mr Riley Gives His Advice Concerning a School for Tom”, in The Mill on the Floss […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I (Boy and Girl), page 33:
- You talk of figures, now; you have only to say to Stelling, ‘I want my son to be a thorough arithmetician,’ and you may leave the rest to him.
Translations edit
one with expertise in arithmetic