Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

larithmics

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lar-ith-mics
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The study of population statistics.

Obsolete; Uncountable

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λαός /laos/ (people) + ἀριθμητικός (arithmetics). Coined in “Larithmics: An Addition to Sociological Terminology” by American sociologist Henry Pratt Fairchild in the “American Journal of Sociology”, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Sep., 1930), pp. 278-281; published by: The University of Chicago Press (archive: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2766383).

Usage

Questions

What does larithmics mean?: The study of population statistics.
Where does larithmics come from?: From Ancient Greek λαός /laos/ (people) + ἀριθμητικός (arithmetics). Coined in “Larithmics: An Addition to Sociological Terminology” by American sociologist Henry Pratt Fairchild in the “American Journal of Sociology”, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Sep., 1930), pp. 278-281; published by: The University of Chicago Press (archive: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2766383).

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