cossist

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A practitioner of proto-algebra in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe. historical
    — The word "cossist" comes from the Italian cosa, meaning "thing." The cosa was the mystery that algebra was designed to solve -- it was the name given to the unknown quantity in an equation (our modern x).
形容词 adj.
  1. Pertaining to the cossists and their methods; cossic. not-comparable
    — Clavius's treatise is, first of all, reckoned as one of the textbooks of cossist algebra.

词形变化

cossists plural

词源

词源 1
From Italian cossista, from the word cosa (“thing”), in reference to an unknown quantity to be determined + -ista. See rule of coss.
词源 2
From Italian cossista, from the word cosa (“thing”), in reference to an unknown quantity to be determined + -ista. See rule of coss.
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