different between recken vs calculate

German

Etymology

From Middle High German [Term?], from Old High German recchen, from Proto-West Germanic *rakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *rakjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ro?éyeti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k?n/, [???k?]

Verb

recken (weak, third-person singular present reckt, past tense reckte, past participle gereckt, auxiliary haben)

1. (reflexive, to stretch one's muscles, sich recken) to stretch

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

• “recken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “recken” in Duden online

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *recken, from Proto-West Germanic *rakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *rakjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ro?éyeti.

Verb

recken

1. to stretch, to reach out (of limbs)
2. to stretch
3. to govern, to control

Inflection

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Descendants

• Dutch: rekken
• Limburgish: rèkke

Further reading

• “recken”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “recken (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin calcul?tus, perfect passive participle of calcul? (“I reckon, originally by means of pebbles”), from calculus (“a pebble”). Refer to calculus for origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kælkj?le?t/, /?kælkj?le?t/
• Hyphenation: cal?cu?late

Verb

calculate (third-person singular simple present calculates, present participle calculating, simple past and past participle calculated)

1. (transitive, mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.

2. (intransitive, mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
3. (intransitive, US, dialect) To plan; to expect; to think.
4. To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of.

5. To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.
   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to particular Persons

     [Religion] is […] calculated for our benefit.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (determine value of or solution to): compute, reckon (old), work out
• (determine values or solutions): compute, reckon (old)

Derived terms

• backcalculate
• calculating

Related terms

• calculation
• calculus
• calculator
• incalculable

Translations

Further reading

• calculate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• calculate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “calculate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Latin

Verb

calcul?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of calcul?
   1. "calculate ye, compute ye"
   2. (figuratively) "consider ye as, esteem ye"

Participle

calcul?te

1. vocative masculine singular of calcul?tus