numeral
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- adjective
- /ˈnjuːmərəl/
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numérico
- Write dates in this order: day (numeral) month (word) year (numeral), with no punctuation e.g. 4 September 2012.
- Roman numeral
- numeral identification
- write the numeral
Examples
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During the quiz, I wrote down the numeral for the answer to question three.
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Um, part four, 4, Roman numeral iv, because why?
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And then put Roman numeral number one right down here.
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I made these new number games for numeral identification to 20.
Blog text (16) -
And did you put the numeral "one" on this admission sheet?
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Pupils in the two sets were then joined together with a pupil coming forward to write the numeral 9.
Academic text (1998) -
Everywhere were bowls of white-chocolate mints, smaller than quarters and emblazoned with the numeral 50.
Fiction book (1995) -
The second issue related to discrete skill measures is that they target narrow areas of content (e.g., numeral identification, missing number).
Academic text (2015) -
The assessment protocol consists of questions in five components of number development: number sequencing, numeral identification, structures of number, combining and partitioning numbers, and place value.
Academic text (2014) -
The teacher explained that the numeral 10 represents the quantity of ten objects.
Synonyms
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About numbers rather than words
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4.6
Relating to or using numbers to show information
Relating to numbers or number order
Compounds
- Specialized
A system that shows numbers by using one mark for each unit like tally marks
Surface Forms
Morphology
numeral = number (semi-transparent) = numer + al
The word clearly contains the common adjectival suffix '-al' and is semantically tied to 'number', but the base appears in the learned classical form 'numer-' rather than the everyday English word.
Etymology
Numeral as an adjective also comes from Latin numerus 'number', so when something is numeral it simply relates to numbers or shows an amount, just like the common word number.