English Explanatory Dictionary

cossist

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A practitioner of proto-algebra in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe.
adj
  1. Pertaining to the cossists and their methods; cossic.

Word forms

cossist cossists

Etymology

From Italian cossista, from the word cosa (“thing”), in reference to an unknown quantity to be determined + -ista. See rule of coss.

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