integer
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin integer (“untouched, unhurt, unchanged, sound, fresh, whole, entire, pure, honest”), from in + tangere (“to touch”). Doublet of entire. See tangere, tact.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
integer (plural integers)
- (arithmetic) A number that is not a fraction; an element of the infinite and numerable set {..., -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ...}.
- 1886, Leopold Kronecker, speech to the Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung:
SynonymsEdit
- whole number, when understood to include negative numbers and zero.
- integral number
HypernymsEdit
HyponymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
a number that is not a fraction
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Further readingEdit
- integer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- integer in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
ReferencesEdit
AnagramsEdit
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
AdjectiveEdit
integer (comparative integerder, superlative integerst)
- honest, trustworthy, having integrity
InflectionEdit
| Inflection of integer | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | integer | |||
| inflected | integere | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | integer | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | integere | ||
| n. sing. | integer | |||
| plural | integere | |||
| definite | integere | |||
| partitive | integers | |||
GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
integer (comparative integrer, superlative am integersten)
DeclensionEdit
Positive forms of integer
| number & gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
| predicative | er ist integer | sie ist integer | es ist integer | sie sind integer | |
| strong declension (without article) |
nominative | integerer | integere | integeres | integere |
| genitive | integeren | integerer | integeren | integerer | |
| dative | integerem | integerer | integerem | integeren | |
| accusative | integeren | integere | integeres | integere | |
| weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der integere | die integere | das integere | die integeren |
| genitive | des integeren | der integeren | des integeren | der integeren | |
| dative | dem integeren | der integeren | dem integeren | den integeren | |
| accusative | den integeren | die integere | das integere | die integeren | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein integerer | eine integere | ein integeres | (keine) integeren |
| genitive | eines integeren | einer integeren | eines integeren | (keiner) integeren | |
| dative | einem integeren | einer integeren | einem integeren | (keinen) integeren | |
| accusative | einen integeren | eine integere | ein integeres | (keine) integeren | |
Comparative forms of integer
| number & gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
| predicative | er ist integrer | sie ist integrer | es ist integrer | sie sind integrer | |
| strong declension (without article) |
nominative | integrerer | integrere | integreres | integrere |
| genitive | integreren | integrerer | integreren | integrerer | |
| dative | integrerem | integrerer | integrerem | integreren | |
| accusative | integreren | integrere | integreres | integrere | |
| weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der integrere | die integrere | das integrere | die integreren |
| genitive | des integreren | der integreren | des integreren | der integreren | |
| dative | dem integreren | der integreren | dem integreren | den integreren | |
| accusative | den integreren | die integrere | das integrere | die integreren | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein integrerer | eine integrere | ein integreres | (keine) integreren |
| genitive | eines integreren | einer integreren | eines integreren | (keiner) integreren | |
| dative | einem integreren | einer integreren | einem integreren | (keinen) integreren | |
| accusative | einen integreren | eine integrere | ein integreres | (keine) integreren | |
Superlative forms of integer
| number & gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
| predicative | er ist am integersten | sie ist am integersten | es ist am integersten | sie sind am integersten | |
| strong declension (without article) |
nominative | integerster | integerste | integerstes | integerste |
| genitive | integersten | integerster | integersten | integerster | |
| dative | integerstem | integerster | integerstem | integersten | |
| accusative | integersten | integerste | integerstes | integerste | |
| weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der integerste | die integerste | das integerste | die integersten |
| genitive | des integersten | der integersten | des integersten | der integersten | |
| dative | dem integersten | der integersten | dem integersten | den integersten | |
| accusative | den integersten | die integerste | das integerste | die integersten | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein integerster | eine integerste | ein integerstes | (keine) integersten |
| genitive | eines integersten | einer integersten | eines integersten | (keiner) integersten | |
| dative | einem integersten | einer integersten | einem integersten | (keinen) integersten | |
| accusative | einen integersten | eine integerste | ein integerstes | (keine) integersten | |
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- integer in Duden online
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Italic *entagros, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥th₂gros, from *teh₂g- (whence tangō).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
integer (feminine integra, neuter integrum); first/second declension
InflectionEdit
First/second declension, nominative masculine singular in -er.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | integer | integra | integrum | integrī | integrae | integra | |
| genitive | integrī | integrae | integrī | integrōrum | integrārum | integrōrum | |
| dative | integrō | integrō | integrīs | ||||
| accusative | integrum | integram | integrum | integrōs | integrās | integra | |
| ablative | integrō | integrā | integrō | integrīs | |||
| vocative | integer | integra | integrum | integrī | integrae | integra | |
- comparative: integrior, superlative: integerrimus
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Aromanian: ãntreg, ntreg
- Asturian: enteru, integru (borrowing)
- Catalan: enter, íntegre (borrowing)
- Dalmatian: intric
- English: entire, integer (borrowing)
- Old French: entier
- Friulian: intîr
- Galician: enteiro, íntegro (borrowing)
- Italian: integro (borrowing), intero
- Norman: entchi
- Ladin: ntier
- Occitan: entièr, entegre
- Old Portuguese: enteiro, enteyro
- Old Spanish: entero, entrego, entegro (borrowing)
- Portuguese: íntegro (borrowing), inteiro
- Romanian: întreg, integru (borrowing)
- Romansch: entir
- Sardinian: interu
- Sicilian: nteru
- Spanish: entero, íntegro (borrowing)
- Venetian: intier, intiero, intrego, intriego
- Walloon: entier
ReferencesEdit
- integer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- integer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- integer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- sound, unimpaired senses: sensus sani, integri, incorrupti
- it is no longer in my power: mihi non est integrum, ut...
- to leave the question open; to refuse to commit oneself: integrum (causam integram) sibi reservare
- to reinstate a person in his right: aliquem in integrum (vid. sect. V. 4, note The proper...) restituere
- an impartial witness: testis incorruptus atque integer
- to send fresh troops to take the place of those wearied with fighting: integros defatigatis summittere
- fresh troops relieve the tired men: integri et recentes defatigatis succedunt
- (ambiguous) to be in the prime of life: integra aetate esse
- (ambiguous) the matter is still undecided; it is an open question: res integra est
- (ambiguous) I have not yet committed myself: res mihi integra est
- sound, unimpaired senses: sensus sani, integri, incorrupti
- integer in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
LimburgishEdit
EtymologyEdit
AdjectiveEdit
integer (comparative integerder, superlative integers, predicative superlative 't integers)
Usage notesEdit
Unlike in Dutch, it is not used in the meaning of honest or trustworthy.
InflectionEdit
Declension of integer
| number & gender | masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | singular | plural | singular | plural | |
| nominative | integere | integer | integer | integer | integer | integer |
| genitive | integers | integerer | integerer | integerer | integers | integerer |
| locative | integeres | integeres | integeres | integeres | integeres | integeres |
| vocative1 | integer | |||||
| dative2 | integere | integeren | integerer | integeren | integer | integeren |
| accusative2 | integere | integeren | integer | integer | integer | integeren |
| 1Limited to a few fossilized forms. | ||||||
| 2Nowadays obsolete, use the nominative instead. | ||||||