Where does “factorial” come from?
factorial (English) comes from English factor, from Middle French facteur, from Latin factor, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr.
factorial (English): The result of multiplying a given number of...
Definitions
- The result of multiplying a given number of...
Ancestry of “factorial”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | factor | A doer, maker; a person who does things for... |
| 2 | Middle French | facteur | — |
| 3 | Latin | factor | One who or which does or makes something; doer,... |
| 4 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 5 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 6 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 7 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
Words derived from “factorial”
- multifactorial
- trifactorial
- factorially
- bifactorial
- unifactorial
- monofactorial
- nonfactorial
- polyfactorial
- superfactorial
- interfactorial
- factoriality
- double factorial
- hyperfactorial
- subfactorial
- факториа́л
- factorialization
- factorialize
- plurifactorial
- semifactorial
- faktorial
- faktorialo
- multifactoriality
- multifactorially
- факториал