Noun: abakus
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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en abakus, eller kuleramme, er en tidlig forløper til dagens kalkulator. Den første ble utviklet i Mesopotamia over 2000 år f. Kr. (An abacus, or abacus, is an early precursor to today's calculator. The first was developed in Mesopotamia over 2000 BC.) [2011 November 3, Aftenposten, page 8:]
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Abakus er nok en fortsettelse av tidligere tiders fingertelling eller daktylonomi (Abacus is another continuation of the finger counting or dactylonomy of earlier times)
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den korinthiske [søyle], hvis abacus, bøiet og med afskaarne hjørner, bar en liden roset paa hver sides midte (the Corinthian [pillar], whose abacus, bent and with truncated corners, bore a small rosette in the middle of each side) [1902, Lorentz Dietrichson, Omrids af den kirkelige Kunstarkæologi, page 34:]
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Abakus er den øvre, plateformete delen av kapitélet på en søyle, som benyttes som opplagringspunkt for bjelker. (The abacus is the upper, plate-shaped part of the capital of a pillar, which is used as a storage point for beams.)
Nouns inflected like abakus
tjuendedag,
billettautomat,
bestevenn,
synops,
syklon,
syklus,
abiturient,
forsnevring,
kroppsdel,
snøbre,
lekeplass,
sesjon,
sesong,
septim,
sefard,
seilas,
sektor,
sement,
sensor,
sensur, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin abacus, abax (“sideboard or table with a slab at the top; slab at the top of a column; counting board, sand table; board for playing games”), from Ancient Greek ἄβαξ (ábax, “counting board; board covered with sand for drawing; plate; dice-board”), possibly from a Semitic source, such as Phoenician -𐤀𐤁𐤀𐤒 (-ʾbʾq) or Hebrew אָבָק (avák, “dust”). See: Latin Nouns '
abacus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἄβαξ'.
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