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)
• Māori: 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

  Latin: brojnik (sh) m, brojilac (sh) m

• Slovak: čitateľ m
• Slovene: števec m
• Spanish: numerador (es) m
• Swedish: täljare (sv) c
• Tagalog: panakda
• Tamil: தொகுதி (ta) (tokuti), தொகுதியெண் (ta) (tokutiyeṇ)
• 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)
• Polish: osoba licząca f
• 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.