digitusn.
/ˈdɪdʒᵻtəs/, U.S. /ˈdɪdʒᵻdəs/ rare. Now historical.
A whole number less than ten; = digit n. 1a. Cf. articulus n. 1.
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digitusa1398
argumentc1405
geodeticala1690
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idempotent1903
modularity1927
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxiii. 1360 Euerich simple nombre byneþe ten is digitus. And ten is þe firste articulus.
1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum xix. cxxv. sig. Aaaavi/1 Compositus is compowned of Digitus, & of Articulus, as eleuen, twelue, & thirteene, & so forth vnto twentie.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 235/2 With him [sc. Vincent of Beauvais] the unit is termed ‘digitus’; when multiplied by ten it becomes the ‘articulus’; while the combination of the articulus and the digitus is the ‘numerus compositus’.
1969 P. Broneer tr. K. Menninger Number Words & Number Symbols 206 The old classification of the natural numbers into digiti, articuli, and numeri compositi.
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