Etymology of the English word binomial
the English word
binomialderived from the Latin word
binomiusderived from the French word
nomderived from the Latin word
nomen (name, unnamed bone, unnamed artery; name, family name; noun)
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*nō-men-derived from the Greek word
nomos, νόμος (law; name; law (through the idea of prescriptive usage), genitive case (regulation), specially, (of Moses (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively (a principle))
derived from the Greek word
nemein, νέμω
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*nem-derived from the Latin word
bi-derived from the Latin word
bis (two)
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*dwo-derived from the Old Latin word
duisDate
The earliest known usage of binomial in English dates from the 16th century.
Derivations in English
monomial,
polynomial,
quadrinomial,
multinomialUsage
Word found in Modern English
