† zenzicubeadjective & noun
There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the word zenzicube. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
This word is now obsolete. It is last recorded around the late 1600s.
Earliest known use
mid 1500s
The earliest known use of the word zenzicube is in the mid 1500s.
OED's earliest evidence for zenzicube is from 1557, in the writing of Robert Recorde, mathematician and physician.
Nearby entries
- zenography, n.1890–
- Zenonian, adj.¹ & n.¹1654–
- Zenonian, adj.²1756–
- Zenonian, adj.³ & n.²1837–
- Zenonic, adj.¹1779–
- Zenonic, adj.²1827–
- Zenonism, n.¹1789–
- Zenonism, n.²1935–
- zenzi-, comb. form
- zenzic, n. & adj.1557–71
- zenzicube, adj. & n.1557–1690
- zenzicubic, adj.1557–71
- zenzicubicube, n.a1690
- zenzizenzic, adj. & n.1557–1690
- zenzizenzicube, n.a1690
- zenzizenzicubic, adj.a1690
- zenzizenzizenzic, n.1557–1690
- zeolite, n.1770–
- zeolitic, adj.1782–
- zeolitical, adj.1788–
- zeolitically, adv.1926–
After
post-classical Latin zensicubus (1525 or earlier); compare
Italian censo di cubi,
censo cubo (15th cent.).
1557–1690
a. n.The square of a cubic number; the sixth power of a number; b. adj.designating the sixth power or root of a number; zenzicubic.
1557
If I name it to bee a Square of Cubes, or zenzicube: then is..2. his roote.
R. Recorde, Whetstone of Witte sig. Hiiiv
1557
When Squares and Cubes be compounde together: as Zenzicubes, Zenzizenzicubes, Zenzicubicubes.…3. is the Zenzizenzicubike roote of .531441.
R. Recorde, Whetstone of Witte sig. Qiv
1655
The sixt, a squared Cube, or zenzicube, written thus, aaaaaa or a6.
T. Gibson, Syntaxis Mathematica Preface 11
a1690
The Zenzicube Root of 64000000 is 20.
S. Jeake, Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 332
Originally published as part of the entry for zenzi-, comb. form
zenzicube, adj. & n. was first published in 2018.
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