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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin putus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin putō Latin computō Latin computārelbor. French computerbor. English compute Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English -istic English computistic From compute + -istic.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or relating to the calendrical technique of computus.
The computistic writings of the Anglo-Saxon monk Bede (De temporibus, De temporum ratione) became highly authoritative and were widely circulated.
1996 [1992], Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum, chapter 3, in Thomas Dunlap, transl., History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders, University of Chicago Press, translation of Die Geschichte der Stunde: Uhren und moderne Zeitordnungen (in German), →OCLC, page 41:
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it computistico (Translations)