Where does “numerals” come from?

Numerals comes from Middle French numeral, from Latin numeralis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European nem-.

numerals (English): plural of numeral

Definitions

  1. plural of numeral

Ancestry of “numerals”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishnumeralA symbol that is not a word and represents a...
2Middle Frenchnumeralnumeral; numerical
3LatinnumeralisOf or belonging to a number; numeral
4Latinnumerusnumber; collection, quantity; rank, position
5Proto-Italicnomezos—
6Proto-Indo-Europeannémesos—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European némesos →
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