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Arithmetic

3 stages from Greek to English.

Today it means the branch of mathematics dealing with numbers and operations on them
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Stage 1 of 3
arithmos
Greek · ancient
"number"
the root word for number itself
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Stage 2 of 3
arsmetrique
Old French · medieval
"the art of computing with numbers"
carried into French as the art of numbers
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Stage 3 of 3
arithmetic
English · 1300s
"the branch of mathematics dealing with numbers"
settled as the word for the mathematics of numbers
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