numeral

From Middle French numeral, from Latin numerālis (“pertaining to a number”), from numerus (“a number”).

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: nyo͞oʹm(ə)rəl, IPA^(key): /ˈnjuːməɹəl/, /ˈnjuːmɹəl/
• (General American) enPR: no͞oʹm(ə)rəl, IPA^(key): /ˈnuməɹəl/, /ˈnumɹəl/

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• Hyphenation: nu‧mer‧al, num‧eral

numeral (plural numerals)

1. A symbol that is not a word and represents a number, such as the Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3 and the Roman numerals I, V, X, L.
2. (linguistics) A word representing a number.
   • 2002, Laurie Bauer & Rodney Huddleston, “Lexical word-formation”, in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, page 1715:

     We use the term numeral for linguistic expressions and number for meanings. For example, five is a numeral expressing the number "5" - and fifteen hundred and one thousand five hundred are different numerals expressing the same number, "1,500".

3. (card games) A card whose rank is a number (usually including the ace as 1).

   Jacks, queens, and kings are not numerals.

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:numeral.

• (word representing a number): number

• (linguistics): part of speech (sometimes)

• (linguistics): cardinal numeral, ordinal numeral, distributive numeral, multiplicative numeral

• Arabic numeral
• Roman numeral

• digit

numeral (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to numbers; numerical.
   • (Can we date this quote?), John Locke, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     A long train of numeral progressions.

• (of or relating to numbers): numeric; see also Thesaurus:numerical

• noun numeral

• numeral in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• numeral in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• numeral at OneLook Dictionary Search

numeral m (plural numerais)

1. (grammar) numeral (word representing a number)

• IPA^(key): /numeˈral/

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numeral m (feminine singular numerale, masculine plural numeraux, feminine plural numerales)

1. numeral; numerical
   • 1474, Mystere de l'Incarnation, author unknown

     Numerales proporcions

     Numerical proportions

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (numeral, supplement)

From Latin numerālis.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /nu.mɨ.ˈɾaɫ/
• Hyphenation: nu‧me‧ral

numeral m or f (plural numerais, not comparable)

1. (linguistics) numeral

numeral m (plural numerales)

1. (linguistics) numeral