How do you pronounce arithmetic?

The recorded pronunciation is [əˈɹɪθmətɪk].

Where does arithmetic come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

arithmetic

[əˈɹɪθmətɪk]

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.40 in modern English

Syllables: a-rith-me-tic
IPA: [əˈɹɪθmətɪk]

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Meaning

noun

The mathematics of numbers (integers, rational numbers, real numbers, or complex numbers) under the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Uncountable

noun

Number theory.

Dated; Uncountable

adj

Increasing or decreasing by an arithmetic progression.

adj

Of, relating to, or using arithmetic; arithmetical.

adj

Of a progression, mean, etc, computed solely using addition.

Example Sentences

"Note that all correctly rounding arithmetics satisfy property A1, as do those with properly truncating addition. All faithful binary arithmetics and all arithmetics with either properly truncating or correctly chopping addition satisfy property A2."
"[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across.[…]Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria were dividing and thus, by the perverse arithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying."
"Near-synonym: linear"
"Growth in the most mature markets is likely to be arithmetic; on what rational basis could one hope for exponential growth there?"
"arithmetic geometry"
"Moreover, the latest work of Katz, involving the so-called 'Larsen alternative', provides new criteria, of a very arithmetic nature, to (almost) determine the rational monodromy group"

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *h₂reh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *h₂rey-der. Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρῐθμός (ărĭthmós) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek ἀριθμέω (arithméō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Hellenic *-tis Ancient Greek -τῐς (-tĭs) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós) Ancient Greek ἀριθμητῐκός (arithmētĭkós) Ancient Greek ἀριθμητῐκή (arithmētĭkḗ)bor. Latin arithmēticabor. ▲ Ancient Greek ἀριθμητῐκός (arithmētĭkós)bor. Latin arithmēticusbor. Old French arismetiquebor. Middle English arsmetike English arithmetic From Middle English arsmetike, from Old French arismetique, from Latin arithmētica, from Ancient Greek ἀριθμητική (τέχνη) (arithmētikḗ (tékhnē), “(art of) counting”), feminine of ἀριθμητικός (arithmētikós, “arithmetical”), from ἀριθμός (arithmós, “number, counting”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ri-dʰh₁-mó-s, form of *h₂rey- (“to count, reason”). Used in English since 13th century.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: *h₂er-, arsmetike, arismetique, arithmētica, ἀριθμητική (τέχνη), *h₂ri-dʰh₁-mó-s

Regional Pronunciation

American English: [əˈɹɪθmətɪk]
British English: [əˈɹɪθmətɪk]

Usage

Inflected Forms

arithmetics (plural) arsmetrike (alternative, obsolete) arsmetryke (alternative, obsolete) arithmetike (alternative, obsolete)

Derived Forms

alphametic arithmetician arithmeticity arithmogram hyperarithmetic nonarithmetic arithmetically

Phrases

affine arithmetic arbitrary-precision arithmetic arithmetic bug binary arithmetic Boolean arithmetic clock arithmetic congruence arithmetic decimal arithmetic

Frequently Paired Words

geometric exponential parabolic List of terms used in arithmetic in English

Synonyms

linear arithmetical

Rhymes With

genetic magnetic athletic pathetic aesthetic synthetic sympathetic energetic cosmetic poetic electromagnetic diabetic