different between mathematical vs mathesis

English

Etymology

mathematics +? -al

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mæ???mæt?k?l/
• (General American, weak vowel distinction) IPA^(key): /?mæ???mæt?k?l/
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?mæ???mæt?k?l/

Adjective

mathematical (comparative more mathematical, superlative most mathematical)

1. Of, or relating to mathematics
   • 1897, Thomas Hardy, The Well-Beloved

     […] he looked up the uninteresting left road to the fortifications. It was new, long, white, regular, tapering to a vanishing point, like a lesson in perspective. […] Smaller and smaller she waned up the rigid mathematical road, still gazing at the soldier aloft, as Pierston gazed at her.

   • Although Galileo had designed a pendulum clock, he never actually constructed one. The first pendulum clock was constructed by the Dutch physicist Christian Huygens (1629–1695) in 1657. He also developed the mathematical theory of the pendulum. Newton also studied the motion of a pendulum and experimented with pendulums made of different materials and of different lengths.
2. Possible but highly improbable

Translations

Anagrams

• metathalamic

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman mathesis, Middle French mathesie, and their source, Late Latin mathesis (“astrology, liberal arts, science”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (máth?sis, “learning”), from the same base as ??????? (manthán?, “I learn”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m???i?s?s/, /?ma??s?s/

Noun

mathesis (uncountable)

1. (now rare) Mental calculation or discipline; science, especially mathematical learning. [from 15th c.]
   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:

     Forget the Boys, forget your loyalties to your Dead, first of all to Rebekah, for she, they, are but distractions, temporal, flesh, ever attempting to drag the Uranian Devotee back down out of his realm of pure Mathesis, of that which abides.

2. The science of establishing a systematic order for things. (After Foucault.) [from 1970s]
   • 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN

     I’m using 'mathesis' — a universal science of measurement and order […]

Translations

Anagrams

• Mathises, atheisms

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ??????? (máth?sis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ma?t?e?.sis/, [mä?t??e?s??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ma?te.sis/, [m??t???s?is]

Noun

math?sis f (genitive math?sis or math?se?s or math?sios); third declension

(Late Latin)

1. (in general) the action of learning, knowledge, science
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Prudentius to this entry?)
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Sidonius Apollinaris to this entry?)
   1. (in particular) mathematics, mathesis
      • (Can we find and add a quotation of Cassiodorus to this entry?)
      • (Can we find and add a quotation of Fabius Planciades Fulgentius to this entry?)
   2. (in particular) astrology
      • (Can we find and add a quotation of Aelius Spartianus to this entry?)
      • (Can we find and add a quotation of Julius Firmicus Maternus to this entry?)
      • (Can we find and add a quotation of Prudentius to this entry?)

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

References

• m?th?sis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mathesis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• m?th?sis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 954/2