numerator

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin numerātor.

Pronunciation

• enPR: no͞oʹ-mər-ā'-tər, IPA^(key): /ˈnuː.məɹˌeɪ̯.təɹ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːməɹeɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

numerator (plural numerators)

1. (arithmetic) The number or expression written above the line in a fraction (such as 1 in ½).

   Synonym: (obsolete) nominator

   Coordinate term: denominator

2. An enumerator; someone who counts.

Translations

number or expression written above the line in a fraction

Arabic: بَسْط (ar) m (basṭ) Armenian: համարիչ (hy) (hamaričʻ) Azerbaijani: surət (az) Belarusian: лі́чнік m (líčnik) Bulgarian: числи́тел (bg) m (čislítel) Catalan: numerador m Chinese: Mandarin: 分子 (zh) (fēnzǐ) Czech: čitatel (cs) m Danish: tæller (da) c Dutch: teller (nl) m Esperanto: numeratoro Finnish: osoittaja (fi) French: numérateur (fr) m Galician: numerador m German: Zähler (de) m Greek: αριθμητής (el) m (arithmitís) Hebrew: מונה m (moné) Hungarian: számláló (hu) Icelandic: teljari m Indonesian: pembilang (id) Japanese: 分子 (ja) (ぶんし, bunshi) Khmer: ភាគយក (km) (phiək yɔɔk) Korean: 분자 (ko) (bunja) Lithuanian: skaitiklis m Macedonian: бро́ител m (bróitel) Malay: pengangka (ms) Maori: taurunga Norwegian: Bokmål: teller (no) m Nynorsk: teljar m Pannonian Rusyn: чишлїтель m (čišljitelʹ) Persian: صورت (fa) (surat), برخه‌شمار (barxe-šomâr) Polish: licznik (pl) m Portuguese: numerador (pt) m Romanian: numărător (ro) m Russian: числи́тель (ru) m (čislítelʹ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: бројник m, бројилац m Roman: brojnik (sh) m, brojilac (sh) m Slovak: čitateľ m Slovene: števec m Spanish: numerador (es) m Swedish: täljare (sv) c Tagalog: panakda Turkish: pay (tr) Ukrainian: чисе́льник m (čysélʹnyk) Vietnamese: tử số (vi), tử thức, tử (vi)

person who counts

Bulgarian: брояч (bg) m (brojač) Dutch: teller (nl) m German: Zähler (de) m, Zählerin (de) f Icelandic: teljari m Persian: شمارنده (fa) (šomârande), شمارگر (šomârgar) Russian: счётчик (ru) m (sčótčik), счётчица (ru) f (sčótčica) Swedish: räknare (sv) c Turkish: sayıcı (tr)

See also

Other terms used in arithmetic operations:

• successor
• addition, summation:

  (augend) + (addend) = (total)

  (summand) + (summand) + (summand)... = (sum)

• subtraction:

  (minuend) − (subtrahend) = (difference)

• multiplication, factorization:

  (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (product)

  (factor) × (factor) × (factor)... = (product)

• division:

  (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient)

  (numerator) / (denominator) = (quotient)

  Or sometimes = (quotient) with (remainder) remaining

• exponentiation:

  (base) ^(exponent) = (power)

• root extraction:

  ^(degree) √ (radicand) = (root)

• logarithmization:

  log_(base) (antilogarithm) = (logarithm)

Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation

Latin

Etymology

From numerō (“count, reckon”) +‎ -tor, from numerus (“number”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [nʊ.mɛˈraː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [nu.meˈraː.tor]

Noun

numerātor m (genitive numerātōris); third declension

1. counter, numerator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	numerātor	numerātōrēs
genitive	numerātōris	numerātōrum
dative	numerātōrī	numerātōribus
accusative	numerātōrem	numerātōrēs
ablative	numerātōre	numerātōribus
vocative	numerātor	numerātōrēs

Related terms

• numerābilis
• numerālis
• numerārius
• numerātiō
• numerātus
• numerius
• numerō
• numerōsē
• numerōsitās
• numerōsiter
• numerōsus
• numerus

Descendants

• → English: numerator
• → Middle French: numerateur
  • French: numérateur
• Italian: numeratore
• Spanish: numerador

References

• “numerator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “numerator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.