† mesographn.

Forms: 1500s mesographes (plural), 1500s–1600s mesographus.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French mesographe; Latin mesographus.

Etymology: Partly < Middle French mesographe (1559 in the passage translated in quot. 1579), and partly < post-classical Latin mesographus (1569 in the passage translated in quot. 1590), both < Hellenistic Greek μεσόγραϕον a mean proportional found using a mesolabe, use as noun of neuter of μεσόγραϕος < μεσο- meso- comb. form + -γραϕος -graph comb. form. The word μεσόγραϕος is not attested as the name of an instrument in Plutarch (compare quot. 1579), or elsewhere in Greek.

Obsolete.

= mesolabe n.

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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] > arithmetical instrument

mesograph1579

mesolabe1579

quipu1581

rods1618

Napier's bones1647

Napier's rods1678

reckoner1757

counter1803

adding machine1822

operameter1830

virgulaa1831

adder1856

computer1869

arithmometer1876

perforation gauge1882

Cuisenaire rod1954

number line1964

number cruncher1966

cruncher1971

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 338 Certeine instruments, called Mesolabes or Mesographes, which serue to finde these meane lines proportionall.

1590 T. Hood tr. P. de La Ramée Elem. Geom. xiii. f. 12^v If a Mesographus, touching the angle opposite to the angle made of the lines geuen, do cut in equal distance from the centre, the 2 right lines geuen..the segments shalbe meane in continuall proportion with the line geuen.

1636 W. Bedwell tr. P. de la Ramée Via Regia ad Geometriam v. 78 Now for the rest, the construction; it was Plato's Mesographus; to wit, a squire with the opposits parallel.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	mesograph
释义	† mesographn. Forms: 1500s mesographes (plural), 1500s–1600s mesographus. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French mesographe; Latin mesographus. Etymology: Partly < Middle French mesographe (1559 in the passage translated in quot. 1579), and partly < post-classical Latin mesographus (1569 in the passage translated in quot. 1590), both < Hellenistic Greek μεσόγραϕον a mean proportional found using a mesolabe, use as noun of neuter of μεσόγραϕος < μεσο- meso- comb. form + -γραϕος -graph comb. form. The word μεσόγραϕος is not attested as the name of an instrument in Plutarch (compare quot. 1579), or elsewhere in Greek. Obsolete. = mesolabe n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] > arithmetical instrument mesograph1579 mesolabe1579 quipu1581 rods1618 Napier's bones1647 Napier's rods1678 reckoner1757 counter1803 adding machine1822 operameter1830 virgulaa1831 adder1856 computer1869 arithmometer1876 perforation gauge1882 Cuisenaire rod1954 number line1964 number cruncher1966 cruncher1971 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 338 Certeine instruments, called Mesolabes or Mesographes, which serue to finde these meane lines proportionall. 1590 T. Hood tr. P. de La Ramée Elem. Geom. xiii. f. 12^v If a Mesographus, touching the angle opposite to the angle made of the lines geuen, do cut in equal distance from the centre, the 2 right lines geuen..the segments shalbe meane in continuall proportion with the line geuen. 1636 W. Bedwell tr. P. de la Ramée Via Regia ad Geometriam v. 78 Now for the rest, the construction; it was Plato's Mesographus; to wit, a squire with the opposits parallel. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1579
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