† ˈbinomy
Also 6–7 in L. form binomium.
[ad. mod.L. binōmius, -um, in algebraical use in 16th c., but common in late Latin in the general sense of ‘having two personal names’; see Du Cange. For this, the classical L. word was binōminis: binōmius may be compared with homicīda.]
= binomial n. 1
| 1571 Digges Pantom. Y ij b, An irrationall called Binomium, reteining proportion to the side, as √z 1/4 + ½ vnto 1. Ibid. C c j a, His conteyned Icosaedrons side is an irrationall Binomye. Ibid. C c iij b, By reduction of the former Trinomye to a Binomye. 1670 Newton in Rigaud Corr. Sc. Men (1841) II. 298 The extraction of cubic roots out of imaginary binomiums. |