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==Origins==
 
==Origins==
Anglo-Norman nombre, noumbre, numbre, nounbre, nunbre, numere and Old French, Middle French nombre sum, total (early 12th cent. as numbre), grammatical number (13th cent.), a (large, small) [[quantity]] (14th cent.), [[conformity]] in verse to a regular [[measure]] (1549) < classical [[Latin]] numerus sum, total, numeral, number as indicating a part or position in a series, a (large, small) quantity, a (large or small) [[group]] or collection of [[persons]] or [[things]], a class or category, number as an abstract [[concept]], the [[fact]] of being numerous, numerical calculation, arithmetic, rhythm in [[words]] or [[music]], [[Grammar|grammatical]] number, metrical foot, (plural) metrical lines, musical strains, perhaps < a suffixed ablaut variant of the same Indo-European base as ancient [[Greek]]  (NOMOS n.).  
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Anglo-Norman nombre, noumbre, numbre, nounbre, nunbre, numere and Old French, Middle French nombre sum, total (early 12th cent. as numbre), grammatical number ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century 13th cent.]), a (large, small) [[quantity]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th cent.]), [[conformity]] in verse to a regular [[measure]] (1549) < classical [[Latin]] numerus sum, total, numeral, number as indicating a part or position in a series, a (large, small) quantity, a (large or small) [[group]] or collection of [[persons]] or [[things]], a class or category, number as an abstract [[concept]], the [[fact]] of being numerous, numerical calculation, arithmetic, rhythm in [[words]] or [[music]], [[Grammar|grammatical]] number, metrical foot, (plural) metrical lines, musical strains, perhaps < a suffixed ablaut variant of the same Indo-European base as ancient [[Greek]]  (NOMOS n.).
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