zenzicube, adj. & n.

zenzicube
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First published 2018

# † zenzicubeadjective & noun

## Factsheet

### What does the word zenzicube mean?

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.

### Where does the word zenzicube come from?

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

1. zenography, n. 1890–
2. Zenonian, adj.¹ & n.¹ 1654–
3. Zenonian, adj.² 1756–
4. Zenonian, adj.³ & n.² 1837–
5. Zenonic, adj.¹ 1779–
6. Zenonic, adj.² 1827–
7. Zenonism, n.¹ 1789–
8. Zenonism, n.² 1935–
9. zenzi-, comb. form
10. zenzic, n. & adj. 1557–71
11. zenzicube, adj. & n.1557–1690
12. zenzicubic, adj. 1557–71
13. zenzicubicube, n. a1690
14. zenzizenzic, adj. & n. 1557–1690
15. zenzizenzicube, n. a1690
16. zenzizenzicubic, adj. a1690
17. zenzizenzizenzic, n. 1557–1690
18. zeolite, n. 1770–
19. zeolitic, adj. 1782–
20. zeolitical, adj. 1788–
21. zeolitically, adv. 1926–

## Etymology

After post-classical Latin zensicubus (1525 or earlier); compare Italian censo di cubi, censo cubo (15th cent.).

## Meaning & use

Mathematics. rare. Obsolete.

1. 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.
   1. 1557

      > If I name it [sc. 64] to bee a Square of Cubes, or zenzicube: then is..2. his roote.

      R. Recorde, Whetstone of Witte sig. Hiiiv
   2. 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
   3. 1655

      > The sixt, a squared Cube, or zenzicube, written thus, aaaaaa or a6.

      T. Gibson, Syntaxis Mathematica Preface 11
   4. a1690

      > The Zenzicube Root of 64000000 is 20.

      S. Jeake, Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 332
   mathematics

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

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