Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

zenzizenzic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: zen-z-izen-z-ic
IPA

49

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

5

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The fourth power of a number; the biquadrate.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"Take the Zenzizenzike Number of the last Quotient Figure, and with the 3 numbers last above-mentioned, add them (duely placed one nearer than another to the Right Hand) into one total Gnonom, and subtract the same from the given Number : And if the number have more Pricks than 2, the work in the second, third, fourth and fifth Directions is to be repeated."
"While this is the least accurate of the four approximations discussed here, it has the charm that the numerator is the zenzizenzic of 4 […]"
"For quotations using this term, see Citations:zenzizenzic."

Etymology

Coined by Robert Recorde (as zenzizenzike) in his 1557 mathematics book The Whetstone of Witte, from the root word zenzic.

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

zenzizenzics (plural) zenzi zenzick (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

zenzic zenzizenzizenzic zenzizenzizenzizenzic zenzizenzizenzizenzike

Questions

What does zenzizenzic mean?: The fourth power of a number; the biquadrate.
Where does zenzizenzic come from?: Coined by Robert Recorde (as zenzizenzike) in his 1557 mathematics book The Whetstone of Witte, from the root word zenzic.

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