mathn.¹

Brit.

/maθ/,

/mɑːθ/, U.S.

/mæθ/

Forms: Old English mæþ, Old English mæð, Middle English mad- (in compounds), Middle English math- (in compounds), Middle English mathe- (in compounds), 1500s–1600s mathe, 1500s– math, 1700s meath.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian mēth (neuter), Old Saxon mād- (in the compound māddag mowing day; Middle Low German māt (feminine)), Old High German -mād (in the compound āmād (neuter) aftermath; Middle High German māt (neuter/feminine), German Mahd (feminine); compare also the weak feminine noun from the same base represented by Old High German māda (Middle High German māde ) swathe), ultimately < the Germanic base of mow v.¹ The quantity of the stem vowel in Old English has conventionally been taken to be long on the evidence of the cognates cited above; however, the subsequent history of the word in English suggests that Old English mǣþ may have had a doublet form mæþ with short vowel: compare Dutch mad , mat (neuter) swathe, and also the possible parallel of two Germanic ablaut grades (one with long stem vowel, the other with short) clearly shown by the cognates of the Verner's law variant mead n.² Almost all of the phonological evidence for the word after the Old English period points to the reflex of Old English mæþ (or to an otherwise unparalleled shortening); evidence for the reflex of Old English mǣþ occurs in a few place names, as Meda (1086), Meðe (1175; now Meeth, Devon), la Methe (1249; now Meethe, Devon), and in the 18th-cent. form meath reported in the works of William Ellis (see Soc. Pure Eng. Tract (1945) lxiv. 103).Although attested as an element in compounds, the word is not found as a simplex in Middle English except in the place name Le Mathes in Cambridgeshire (1221; also as the second element in compound place names (e.g. Wetemathis (1302), now Wheatmath Field, Cambridgeshire)).

Now archaic and British regional.

A mowing; the action or work of mowing; that which may be or has been mowed; the portion of a crop that has been mowed. See also aftermath n., day's math n., lattermath n., undermath n.In R. E. Zupko Dict. Eng. Weights & Measures (1968) defined at that entry as ‘in Herefordshire equal to approx. 1 acre..or to the amount of land that a man could mow in a day’, but apparently on the basis of an instance of day's math (see quot. 1820 at day's math n.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > amount cut or mowed

math1585

reaping1693

shear1794

OE Charter: Bp. Oswald to Æðelstan (Sawyer 1305) in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 66 Þæt he mid eallum cræfte twuga on geare [wyrce] æne to mæþe & oðre siðe to ripe.

OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) i. iv. 36 Aris & ber þis grene hig þam horsum to mete... Nu is lytel to lafe þysses mæþes & swa þis gedon byþ, ic ga æfter þe.

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 124 Fœnum cordum,..late math, or lateward hay.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 573 When this hearbe Medica or Claver grasse beginneth once to flour, cut it downe... Thus you may have sixe mathes in one yeare.

1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 557 The first mowing thereof for the Kings use (which is wont to be sooner then the common mathe).

a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) iv. 37 At the end of the spring, at the second math of grasse.

1795 H. T. Colebrooke Remarks Husbandry & Commerce Bengal iv. 46 Revenue drawn from fruit-trees, pastures and math, and rent of fisheries.

1875 W. B. Scott Poems 114 The young math springing through the hard black soil.

1896 Evesham Jrnl. 24 Oct. in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) (at cited word) The first math, or cutting of a valuable piece of freehold meadow land.

1907 W. S. Blunt Bride of Nile iii. 39 And so, too, this Mohammed. Math and aftermath He has mowed their cities.

1917 Mother St. Jerome Garden of Life 18 You feel as you lie in the math The watching unseen of his eyes.

Compounds

† math-meed n. Obsolete payment for mowing; cf. mead shipe n. at mead n.² Compounds.

ΚΠ

lOE Laws: Rectitudines (Corpus Cambr.) xxi. §4. 452 Feola syndon folcgerihtu: on sumre ðeode gebyreð winterfeorm, Easterfeorm, bendform for ripe, gytfeorm for yrðe, mæðmed, hreacmete, [etc.].

1353 in B. Sundby Stud. Middle Eng. Dial. Material Worcs. Rec. (1963) 49 (MED) Madmede.

1387 in B. Sundby Stud. Middle Eng. Dial. Material Worcs. Rec. (1963) 49 (MED) Mathemede.

† math-silver n. Obsolete money paid by a tenant in lieu of service at haymaking; cf. mead silver n. at mead n.² Compounds.

ΚΠ

1316 in B. Sundby Stud. Middle Eng. Dial. Material Worcs. Rec. (1963) 133 (MED) Mathsilver.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mathn.²

Brit.

/mʌt/, U.S.

/mət/

Forms: 1800s mut, 1800s muth, 1800s– math, 1800s– matha, 1800s– mutt.

Origin: A borrowing from Sanskrit. Etymon: Sanskrit maṭha.

Etymology: < Sanskrit maṭha (also with pronunciation maṭh) cottage, cell, monastery.

In South Asia: a monastery, esp. one for celibate Hindu mendicants.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > monasticism > [noun] > religious foundation > Hindu

math1828

1828 C. D'Oyly Tom Raw, Griffin 248 A picturesque hill between Raje-mahl and Colong, crowned by a snow-white Mut, or religious building of the Hindoos.

1828 H. H. Wilson in Asiatic Researches 16 103 The disciples, who are domesticated in the several Maths, profess also perpetual celibacy.

1834 Baboo II. i. 3 He was to drive to an old Muth near Garden Reach.

1862 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India II. iv. ii. 74 They live like other mendicants collected in maths.

1877 M. Williams Hinduism 224 Yatis, monks or ascetics,..often congregate in Maṭhas or ‘monasteries’.

1883 Madras Mail 5 Dec. 26/1 Mutts and temples are closed to him.

1887 W. W. Hunter Imperial Gazetteer India (ed. 2) XIII. 323 There are two maths or religious establishments in the village.

1956 R. Redfield Peasant Society & Culture iii. 81 Some sweet-voiced, gifted expounder sitting in a temple, mutt, public hall or house-front.

1990 V. S. Naipaul India: Million Mutinies (1991) i. 80 He told me about the deity of the temple-and-ashram, the math, where he had grown up.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mathn.³

Brit.

/maθ/, U.S.

/mæθ/

Forms: 1800s– math, 1800s– math. (with point).

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: mathematics n.

Etymology: Shortened < mathematics n. (probably originally as a graphic abbreviation). Compare later maths n. and French math (1880).

North American colloquial.

Mathematics (esp. as a subject of study at school or college). Cf. maths n. (the usual British colloquial abbreviation).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [noun]

mathematica1387

mathesisa1475

mathematics?1545

mathematicals1563

posology1817

math1847

maths1911

1847 W. G. Hammond Diary 4 June in G. F. Whicher Remembrance of Amherst (1946) 120 It rained so that we had a math. lesson indoors.

1878 N.Y. Herald 10 June 3/5 Bad enough to get found on math..as I did to-day... Found deficient in mathematics.

1891 R. F. Murray Scarlet Gown 71 You see, I'm in for Math. again, And certain to be ploughed.

1899 J. London Let. 24 Oct. (1966) 62 She's well up in the higher math.

1916 T. Wolfe Let. Sept. (1958) 4 I hope I will do well in all my studies and my guess is I'll have to ‘bone’ on math.

1961 C. Winston Hours Together (1962) vii. 139 There was Morton Kersh, with the math book propped against the milk bottle on the kitchen table.

1988 J. Gleick Chaos (U.K. ed.) 250 A physics student would take a math course.

Phrases

to do the math colloquial: to come to a conclusion based on the information given, usually with the implication that this conclusion is obvious. Frequently in imperative, esp. in you do the math.

ΚΠ

1947 N.Y. Times 9 Sept. 10 (advt.) You do the math..we matched them, glen plaids to gabardines.

1968 R. Giannone Music in Willa Cather's Fiction p. viii Do the math: this old woman, almost spent by her hardscrabble years in Nebraska, must have done her training in the 1860s.

1995 L. Garrett Coming Plague (new ed.) iii. 63 But McCormick had done the math, and the knew that the situation could quickly reach West African proportions.

2005 M. Southgate Third Girl from Left 202 Do you think anyone that short, wearing those glasses, with those skinny, skinny legs, ever—I mean ever—had a date at Morehouse? You do the math.

Compounds

math coprocessor n. Computing an auxiliary processor, originally separate but later often incorporated into a computer, which provides additional speed for numerical operations by performing floating-point arithmetic.

ΚΠ

1984 Navigation 31 84 The advanced integrated processor requires augmentation of the 32/32 processor with a math co-processor.

1989 Computer Buyer's Guide & Handbk. vi. 77/3 There is space on the motherboard for a math coprocessor.

1993 Compute Jan. 6/1 The only difference between the 486SX and the 486DX is that the 486SX lacks the latter's built-in math coprocessor.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹OE

n.²1828

n.³1847

单词	math
释义	mathn.¹ Brit. /maθ/, /mɑːθ/, U.S. /mæθ/ Forms: Old English mæþ, Old English mæð, Middle English mad- (in compounds), Middle English math- (in compounds), Middle English mathe- (in compounds), 1500s–1600s mathe, 1500s– math, 1700s meath. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian mēth (neuter), Old Saxon mād- (in the compound māddag mowing day; Middle Low German māt (feminine)), Old High German -mād (in the compound āmād (neuter) aftermath; Middle High German māt (neuter/feminine), German Mahd (feminine); compare also the weak feminine noun from the same base represented by Old High German māda (Middle High German māde ) swathe), ultimately < the Germanic base of mow v.¹ The quantity of the stem vowel in Old English has conventionally been taken to be long on the evidence of the cognates cited above; however, the subsequent history of the word in English suggests that Old English mǣþ may have had a doublet form mæþ with short vowel: compare Dutch mad , mat (neuter) swathe, and also the possible parallel of two Germanic ablaut grades (one with long stem vowel, the other with short) clearly shown by the cognates of the Verner's law variant mead n.² Almost all of the phonological evidence for the word after the Old English period points to the reflex of Old English mæþ (or to an otherwise unparalleled shortening); evidence for the reflex of Old English mǣþ occurs in a few place names, as Meda (1086), Meðe (1175; now Meeth, Devon), la Methe (1249; now Meethe, Devon), and in the 18th-cent. form meath reported in the works of William Ellis (see Soc. Pure Eng. Tract (1945) lxiv. 103).Although attested as an element in compounds, the word is not found as a simplex in Middle English except in the place name Le Mathes in Cambridgeshire (1221; also as the second element in compound place names (e.g. Wetemathis (1302), now Wheatmath Field, Cambridgeshire)). Now archaic and British regional. A mowing; the action or work of mowing; that which may be or has been mowed; the portion of a crop that has been mowed. See also aftermath n., day's math n., lattermath n., undermath n.In R. E. Zupko Dict. Eng. Weights & Measures (1968) defined at that entry as ‘in Herefordshire equal to approx. 1 acre..or to the amount of land that a man could mow in a day’, but apparently on the basis of an instance of day's math (see quot. 1820 at day's math n.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > amount cut or mowed math1585 reaping1693 shear1794 OE Charter: Bp. Oswald to Æðelstan (Sawyer 1305) in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 66 Þæt he mid eallum cræfte twuga on geare [wyrce] æne to mæþe & oðre siðe to ripe. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) i. iv. 36 Aris & ber þis grene hig þam horsum to mete... Nu is lytel to lafe þysses mæþes & swa þis gedon byþ, ic ga æfter þe. 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 124 Fœnum cordum,..late math, or lateward hay. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 573 When this hearbe Medica or Claver grasse beginneth once to flour, cut it downe... Thus you may have sixe mathes in one yeare. 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 557 The first mowing thereof for the Kings use (which is wont to be sooner then the common mathe). a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) iv. 37 At the end of the spring, at the second math of grasse. 1795 H. T. Colebrooke Remarks Husbandry & Commerce Bengal iv. 46 Revenue drawn from fruit-trees, pastures and math, and rent of fisheries. 1875 W. B. Scott Poems 114 The young math springing through the hard black soil. 1896 Evesham Jrnl. 24 Oct. in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) (at cited word) The first math, or cutting of a valuable piece of freehold meadow land. 1907 W. S. Blunt Bride of Nile iii. 39 And so, too, this Mohammed. Math and aftermath He has mowed their cities. 1917 Mother St. Jerome Garden of Life 18 You feel as you lie in the math The watching unseen of his eyes. Compounds † math-meed n. Obsolete payment for mowing; cf. mead shipe n. at mead n.² Compounds. ΚΠ lOE Laws: Rectitudines (Corpus Cambr.) xxi. §4. 452 Feola syndon folcgerihtu: on sumre ðeode gebyreð winterfeorm, Easterfeorm, bendform for ripe, gytfeorm for yrðe, mæðmed, hreacmete, [etc.]. 1353 in B. Sundby Stud. Middle Eng. Dial. Material Worcs. Rec. (1963) 49 (MED) Madmede. 1387 in B. Sundby Stud. Middle Eng. Dial. Material Worcs. Rec. (1963) 49 (MED) Mathemede. † math-silver n. Obsolete money paid by a tenant in lieu of service at haymaking; cf. mead silver n. at mead n.² Compounds. ΚΠ 1316 in B. Sundby Stud. Middle Eng. Dial. Material Worcs. Rec. (1963) 133 (MED) Mathsilver. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mathn.² Brit. /mʌt/, U.S. /mət/ Forms: 1800s mut, 1800s muth, 1800s– math, 1800s– matha, 1800s– mutt. Origin: A borrowing from Sanskrit. Etymon: Sanskrit maṭha. Etymology: < Sanskrit maṭha (also with pronunciation maṭh) cottage, cell, monastery. In South Asia: a monastery, esp. one for celibate Hindu mendicants. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > [noun] > religious foundation > Hindu math1828 1828 C. D'Oyly Tom Raw, Griffin 248 A picturesque hill between Raje-mahl and Colong, crowned by a snow-white Mut, or religious building of the Hindoos. 1828 H. H. Wilson in Asiatic Researches 16 103 The disciples, who are domesticated in the several Maths, profess also perpetual celibacy. 1834 Baboo II. i. 3 He was to drive to an old Muth near Garden Reach. 1862 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India II. iv. ii. 74 They live like other mendicants collected in maths. 1877 M. Williams Hinduism 224 Yatis, monks or ascetics,..often congregate in Maṭhas or ‘monasteries’. 1883 Madras Mail 5 Dec. 26/1 Mutts and temples are closed to him. 1887 W. W. Hunter Imperial Gazetteer India (ed. 2) XIII. 323 There are two maths or religious establishments in the village. 1956 R. Redfield Peasant Society & Culture iii. 81 Some sweet-voiced, gifted expounder sitting in a temple, mutt, public hall or house-front. 1990 V. S. Naipaul India: Million Mutinies (1991) i. 80 He told me about the deity of the temple-and-ashram, the math, where he had grown up. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mathn.³ Brit. /maθ/, U.S. /mæθ/ Forms: 1800s– math, 1800s– math. (with point). Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: mathematics n. Etymology: Shortened < mathematics n. (probably originally as a graphic abbreviation). Compare later maths n. and French math (1880). North American colloquial. Mathematics (esp. as a subject of study at school or college). Cf. maths n. (the usual British colloquial abbreviation). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [noun] mathematica1387 mathesisa1475 mathematics?1545 mathematicals1563 posology1817 math1847 maths1911 1847 W. G. Hammond Diary 4 June in G. F. Whicher Remembrance of Amherst (1946) 120 It rained so that we had a math. lesson indoors. 1878 N.Y. Herald 10 June 3/5 Bad enough to get found on math..as I did to-day... Found deficient in mathematics. 1891 R. F. Murray Scarlet Gown 71 You see, I'm in for Math. again, And certain to be ploughed. 1899 J. London Let. 24 Oct. (1966) 62 She's well up in the higher math. 1916 T. Wolfe Let. Sept. (1958) 4 I hope I will do well in all my studies and my guess is I'll have to ‘bone’ on math. 1961 C. Winston Hours Together (1962) vii. 139 There was Morton Kersh, with the math book propped against the milk bottle on the kitchen table. 1988 J. Gleick Chaos (U.K. ed.) 250 A physics student would take a math course. Phrases to do the math colloquial: to come to a conclusion based on the information given, usually with the implication that this conclusion is obvious. Frequently in imperative, esp. in you do the math. ΚΠ 1947 N.Y. Times 9 Sept. 10 (advt.) You do the math..we matched them, glen plaids to gabardines. 1968 R. Giannone Music in Willa Cather's Fiction p. viii Do the math: this old woman, almost spent by her hardscrabble years in Nebraska, must have done her training in the 1860s. 1995 L. Garrett Coming Plague (new ed.) iii. 63 But McCormick had done the math, and the knew that the situation could quickly reach West African proportions. 2005 M. Southgate Third Girl from Left 202 Do you think anyone that short, wearing those glasses, with those skinny, skinny legs, ever—I mean ever—had a date at Morehouse? You do the math. Compounds math coprocessor n. Computing an auxiliary processor, originally separate but later often incorporated into a computer, which provides additional speed for numerical operations by performing floating-point arithmetic. ΚΠ 1984 Navigation 31 84 The advanced integrated processor requires augmentation of the 32/32 processor with a math co-processor. 1989 Computer Buyer's Guide & Handbk. vi. 77/3 There is space on the motherboard for a math coprocessor. 1993 Compute Jan. 6/1 The only difference between the 486SX and the 486DX is that the 486SX lacks the latter's built-in math coprocessor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹OEn.²1828n.³1847
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