enumerate

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ē-

Proto-Indo-European *nem-

Proto-Italic *nomezos

Latin numerus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin numerō

Latin ēnumerō

Latin ēnumerātusbor.

English enumerate

First attested in 1600–1650; borrowed from Latin ēnumerātus, the perfect passive participle of ēnumerō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈnjuː.məˌɹeɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈn(j)u.məˌɹeɪt/

Verb

enumerate (third-person singular simple present enumerates, present participle enumerating, simple past and past participle enumerated)

1. To specify each member of a sequence individually in incrementing order.
2. To determine the amount of.

Synonyms

• (determine the amount of): number, tally; see also Thesaurus:count or Thesaurus:tick off

Derived terms

• afore-enumerated
• enumerative
• misenumerate
• renumerate

Related terms

• enumeration
• enumerator

Translations

to specify each member of a sequence individually in incrementing order

• Arabic: أَحْصَى (ʔaḥṣā)
• Azerbaijani: sadalamaq
• Bulgarian: изброя́вам (bg) (izbrojávam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 枚举 (zh) (méijǔ), 列举 (zh) (lièjǔ)

• Czech: vyjmenovat pf
• Dutch: uittellen (nl)
• Finnish: luetella (fi)
• French: énumérer (fr)
• Galician: enumerar (gl)
• German: aufzählen (de)
• Greek: απαριθμώ (el) (aparithmó)
• Hungarian: felsorol (hu)
• Ido: enumerar (io)
• Ingrian: luetella
• Japanese: 列挙する (れっきょ-する, rekkyo-suru)
• Polish: policzyć (pl) pf
• Portuguese: enumerar (pt)
• Russian: перечисля́ть (ru) impf (perečisljátʹ), перечи́слить (ru) pf (perečíslitʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: nabrojati (sh)

• Spanish: enumerar (es)

to determine the amount of

• Dutch: opsommen (nl), enumereren (nl), uittellen (nl)
• French: dénombrer (fr)
• Galician: enumerar (gl)
• Hungarian: megszámol (hu), számlál (hu)
• Ido: enumerar (io)
• Japanese: 数える (ja) (kazoeru)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tallfeste (no)

  Nynorsk: talfeste

• Polish: odliczyć pf, odliczać impf
• Portuguese: enumerar (pt)
• Russian: пересчи́тывать (ru) impf (peresčítyvatʹ), пересчита́ть (ru) pf (peresčitátʹ)
• Ugaritic: 𐎒𐎔𐎗 (spr)

Adjective

enumerate (comparative more enumerate, superlative most enumerate)

1. (obsolete, participle) Enumerated.
   • 1646, George Gillespie, Male Audis:

     So many scandals as are enumerate in the Ordinance.

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

enumerate

1. inflection of enumerare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

enumerate f pl

1. feminine plural of enumerato

Anagrams

• ermeneuta, umanerete

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [eː.nʊ.mɛˈraː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [e.nu.meˈraː.te]

Verb

ēnumerāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēnumerō

Spanish

Verb

enumerate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of enumerar combined with te