Noun: numeral
| Singular | numeral |
| Plural | numerals |
Sample Sentences
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Compare the numeral for the product with the original decimal numeral. [1966, Robert Lee Morton, Modern Mathematics Through Discovery, page 97:]
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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". [2002, Laurie Bauer, Rodney Huddleston, “Lexical word-formation”, in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, page 1715:]
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Jacks, queens, and kings are not numerals.
Nouns inflected like numeral
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. As an adjective, from Middle English numeral, numerall, from Latin numerālis (“pertaining to a number”), from numerus (“a number”).
2. As a noun, via Middle French numeral. See: Middle English Nouns '
numeral', Latin Nouns '
numerālis'.
Verbs referencing "numeral"
Finnish Nouns
numeraali.