different between numerator vs mediant

English

Etymology

From Late Latin numerator.

Noun

numerator (plural numerators)

1. (arithmetic) The number or expression written above the line in a fraction (such as 1 in ½).

   Synonym: (obsolete) nominator

   Coordinate term: denominator

2. An enumerator; someone who counts things.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From numer? (“count, reckon”), from numerus (“number”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /nu.me?ra?.tor/, [n?m???ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /nu.me?ra.tor/, [num?????t??r]

Noun

numer?tor m (genitive numer?t?ris); third declension

1. counter, numerator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

• ? English: numerator
• ? Middle French: numerateur
  • French: numérateur
• Italian: numeratore
• Spanish: numerador

References

• numerator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• numerator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From Italian mediante, from Latin medi?nt- (“being in the middle”), present active participle of medi? (“I am in the middle”), from medius (“middle”), from Proto-Italic *meðios, from Proto-Indo-European *med?yo- (“between”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi?di.?nt/

Noun

mediant (plural mediants)

1. (music) The third degree of the diatonic scale.
2. (mathematics) A rational number whose numerator is the sum of the numerators of two other given rational numbers and whose denominator is the sum of the denominators of those same two other rational numbers.

   For any tangent pair of Ford circles corresponding to rational numbers r and s, the Ford circle tangent to both of them corresponds to the rational number which is the mediant of r and s.

Translations

Anagrams

• Dietman, dematin, dietman

Latin

Verb

mediant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of medi?