zenzizenzic, adj. & n.

zenzizenzic
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First published 2018

# † zenzizenzicadjective & noun

## Factsheet

### What does the word zenzizenzic mean?

There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the word zenzizenzic. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

This word is now obsolete. It is last recorded around the late 1600s.

### Where does the word zenzizenzic come from?

Earliest known use

mid 1500s

The earliest known use of the word zenzizenzic is in the mid 1500s.

OED's earliest evidence for zenzizenzic is from 1557, in the writing of Robert Recorde, mathematician and physician.

### Nearby entries

1. Zenonian, adj.³ & n.² 1837–
2. Zenonic, adj.¹ 1779–
3. Zenonic, adj.² 1827–
4. Zenonism, n.¹ 1789–
5. Zenonism, n.² 1935–
6. zenzi-, comb. form
7. zenzic, n. & adj. 1557–71
8. zenzicube, adj. & n. 1557–1690
9. zenzicubic, adj. 1557–71
10. zenzicubicube, n. a1690
11. zenzizenzic, adj. & n.1557–1690
12. zenzizenzicube, n. a1690
13. zenzizenzicubic, adj. a1690
14. zenzizenzizenzic, n. 1557–1690
15. zeolite, n. 1770–
16. zeolitic, adj. 1782–
17. zeolitical, adj. 1788–
18. zeolitically, adv. 1926–
19. zeolitiform, adj. 1788–
20. zeolitization, n. 1879–
21. zeolitize, v. 1881–

## Etymology

After post-classical Latin zensizensicus (1544 or earlier); compare Italian censo di censo (15th cent.).

## Meaning & use

Mathematics. rare. Obsolete.

1. 1557–1690
   a. adj.Designating the fourth power or root of a number; b. n.the square of a square; the fourth power of a number.
   1. 1557

      > Might rather haue taken .81. whiche is a Zenzizenzike nomber.

      R. Recorde, Whetstone of Witte sig. Hiii
   2. 1654

      > For the whole being in numeration, Six thousand and five hundred sixty one, Its Zenzizenzick root I'll take.

      Ex Ungue Leonem sig. E
   3. 1655

      > The fourth, a Biquadrat or squared square, anciently a Zenzi zenzick, figured thus zz now thus, aaaa, or for brevity, a4.

      T. Gibson, Syntaxis Mathematica Preface 10
   4. a1690

      > The Zenzizenzike of 8 is 4096.

      S. Jeake, Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 200
   mathematics

Originally published as part of the entry for zenzi-, comb. form

zenzizenzic, adj. & n. was first published in 2018.