zenzic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. relating to the square of a number

Word forms

zenzic zenzick

Etymology

From New Latin zenzicus, zensicus, from zensus, Germanized from census / German zenzi (“square (of a number)”), from Italian censo (“property”), used in Medieval times to denote the algebraic square based on a translation of Arabic مَال (māl, “property, assets, estate; (obsolete) algebraic square”).

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