computer

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computer c (singular definite computeren, plural indefinite computere)

computeren (definite singular)
computere (indefinite plural)
computer (indefinite nominative singular)
computeren (definite nominative singular)
computere (indefinite nominative plural)
computerne (definite nominative plural)
computers (genitive indefinite singular)
computerens (definite genitive singular)
computeres (genitive indefinite plural)
computernes (definite genitive plural)

[kʰʌmˈpʰj̊uːd̥ɐ]

[kʰʌmˈpʰj̊uːtˢɐ]


computer

nl-noun

computer m (plural computers, diminutive computertje n)

computers (plural)
computertje (diminutive neuter)

→ Trió: konpëjutë

Unadapted borrowing from English computer.


computer

first-person singular present indicative

(in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


computer

I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed, and he reduceth thy dayes into a short number: The daies of Man are threescore and ten.

1613, Richard Brathwait, The Yong Mans Gleanings, page 1:

By which manner of ſpeaking, this Propheteſs, who is ſo exact a Computer, would have us, I ſuppoſe, to conclude, that it would be a great miſtake to think that the number of Angels was either 9, or 11 for one of Men.

1674, “To the Guardian-Angel”, in Reflexions upon the Devotions of the Roman Church, London: Richard Royston, page 419:

Only a few years ago Mr. Powers, an American computer, disproved a hypothesis about prime numbers which had held the field for more than 250 years.

1927, J. B. S. Haldane, Possible Worlds and Other Essays, London: Chatto & Windus, page 173:

During World War II, scientific laboratories had rooms full of people doing different parts of a complicated calculation using pencil and paper, slide rules, and mechanical calculators. At that time, the word computer referred to a person, and those group calculations may be viewed as the early steps of parallel computing.

2001, Michael L. overton, Numerical Computing with IEEE Floating Point Arithmetic, SIAM, page 1:

One Harvard computer, Annie Jump Cannon, used her repetitive acquaintance with the stars to devise a system of stellar classifications so practical that it is still in use today.

2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 116:

(now rare, chiefly historical) A person employed to perform computations; one who computes.

Coordinate term: (female) computress

(by restriction, chiefly historical) A male computer.

I spend around 6 hours a day at the computer.

As well as saving the photos on my computer, I have them backed up on a USB drive.

David is a computer expert.

Janet works at the computer store.

A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media.

→ Albanian: kompjuter

→ Amharic: ኮምፒዩተር (kompiyutär)

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كَمْبْيُوتَر

→ Arabic: كَمْبْيُوتَر (kambyūtar)

→ Azerbaijani: kompüter

→ Belarusian: камп'ю́тар (kampʺjútar), кампу́тар (kampútar), камп'ю́тэр (kampʺjúter)

→ Bengali: কম্পিউটার (kompiuṭar)

→ Bulgarian: компю́тър (kompjútǎr)

→ Burmese: ကွန်ပျူတာ (kwanpyuta)

→ Danish: computer

→ Dutch: computer

→ Estonian: kompuuter

→ Georgian: კომპიუტერი (ḳomṗiuṭeri)

→ German: Computer

→ Greek: κομπιούτερ (kompioúter)

→ Hindi: कंप्यूटर (kampyūṭar)

→ Indonesian: komputer

→ Italian: computer

→ Japanese: コンピューター (konpyūtā)

→ Khmer: កុំព្យូទ័រ (kompyuutɔə)

→ Korean: 컴퓨터 (keompyuteo)

→ Kyrgyz: компьютер (kompyuter)

→ Lao: ຄອມພິວເຕີ (khǭm phiu tœ̄)

→ Latvian: kompjūters

→ Lithuanian: kompiuteris

→ Luxembourgish: Computer

→ Macedonian: компју́тер (kompjúter)

→ Malay: komputer

→ Malayalam: കമ്പ്യൂട്ടർ (kampyūṭṭaṟ)

→ Maltese: kompjuter

→ Northern Kurdish: kompûter

→ Odia: କମ୍ପ୍ୟୁଟର (kampyuṭara)

→ Persian: کامپیوتر (kâmpyutar)

→ Pitcairn-Norfolk: kompyuuta

→ Polish: komputer

→ Romanian: computer

→ Romansch: computer

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→ Russian: компью́тер (kompʹjúter)
→ Dungan: конбиютә (konbii͡utə)
→ Kazakh: компьютер (kompüter)
→ Kyrgyz: компьютер (kompyuter)
→ Mongolian:
Cyrillic script: компьютер (kompʹjüter)
Mongolian script: ᠺᠣᠮᠫᠢᠶᠦᠲᠧᠷ (kompiyütēr)
→ Tajik: компютер (kompyuter)
→ Turkmen: kompýuter
→ Uzbek: kompyuter

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→ Carpathian Rusyn: компю́тер (kompjúter)

→ Scottish Gaelic: coimpiutair

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: компјутер

Latin script: kompjuter

→ Swahili: kompyuta

→ Tagalog: kompiyuter

→ Tajik: компютер (kompyuter), компутар (komputar)

→ Telugu: కంప్యూటర్ (kampyūṭar)

→ Thai: คอมพิวเตอร์ (kɔm-piu-dtə̂ə)

→ Thai: คอมพิวเตอร์ (kɔm-piu-dtə̂ə)

→ Tok Pisin: kompyuta

→ Turkmen: kompýuter

→ Turkish: kompüter (obsolete)

→ Ukrainian: комп'ю́тер (kompʺjúter)

→ Urdu: کمپیوٹر (kampyūṭar)

→ Uyghur: كومپيۇتېر (kompyutër)

→ Xhosa: ikhompyutha

→ Yakut: көмпүүтэр (kömpüüter)

→ Yiddish: קאָמפּיוטער (kompyuter)

→ Zulu: ikhompyutha

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Computer
Computer (occupation)
Engineering (magazine)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mental calculator
Richard Brathwait

From compute + -er. Doublet of cantore, counter, and kontor.
Sense 1 first attested in 1613 by the poet Richard Brathwait.
Sense 2 first attested in 1897 in the Engineering magazine.


computer

Cool he was computering, though. My dad, who is only in his 60's (mom too) thinks he is too busy to get connected to the internet. Oh well. More bandwidth for the rest of us, huh?

1995 December 31, Roxanne Coyle, “B'days”, in bit.listserv.words-l (Usenet):

I don't know if you have the same violent mood-swing issues that I do, but I was bustling around the house feeling very useful and good, and then I was sitting here computering for a while, and suddenly it was like a giant butterfly net scooped me up and threw me into an old mayonnaise jar, […]

2004, The World According to Mimi Smartypants, London: HarperCollinsEntertainment, →ISBN, page 36:

I'm constantly computering, schlepping, stressing, and hauling ass like the rest of us. We are New Yorkers.

2017 May 16, Alyssa Shelasky, “What I Discovered When I Outsourced My Back Pain”, in New York Magazine, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-31:

Yeah, you saw what he could do when he flips out. I mean, how am I going to say no to that? Plus, he does computer good.

2019 December 20, “Finding Mr. Right”, in Harley Quinn, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Harley Quinn (Kaley Cuoco):

They had immediately computered the description out to the scores of law enforcement agencies in Southern California.

1988, Marcel Montecino, The Crosskiller, New York, N.Y.: Arbor House; William Morrow, →ISBN, page 351:

'Nah. It was him hated it more than me. Fish out of water. Cops watching every move he makes. Memos about him computered to every nick in the land. He was too innocent for this hi-tech world, Bobby. Would've been back inside in no time at all.'

2001, Will Kingdom, Mean Spirit, London […]: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 428:

I know there are storage warehouses in New York and Virginia and all over the place, St. Louis, and many other places, that keep these things. I think this is a very fertile area for this committee, and perhaps computering it, or microfilm preservation, or things of that sort.

1972 March 20, Benny L. Kass, quotee, U.S. Government Information Policies and Practices: Administration and Operation of the Freedom of Information Act, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 1425:

Our sincere thanks are due to Antje Reuter, Jens Adam and Uwe Horstmann for computering the manuscript and Ralph Phillips and Kirsten Techmer for proof reading it.

1983, H. Ahrendt, N. Clauer, J. C. Hunziker, K. Weber, “Migration of Folding and Metamorphism in the Rheinische Schiefergebirge Deduced from K-Ar and Rb-Sr Age Determinations”, in Intracontinental Fold Belts: Case Studies in the Variscan Belt of Europe and the Damara Belt in Namibia, Berlin […]: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, →ISBN, page 336:

It is also a pleasure to recommend the skill of Irit Markan who carried out the work of 'computering' the text, and of Ivor Ludlam who bore the labour of proof reading—both the English and the Greek.

1988, Shimon Applebaum, “Foreward”, in Judaea in Hellenistic and Roman Times, Leiden […]: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

I have 30 years worth of logs some place and they have been computered the last few years and the last few years I think I have posted them to the sites I hang out on.

2010 November 21, Burr, “MFW has been milked dry”, in misc.fitness.weights (Usenet):

(transitive) To transfer onto a computer; to computerize.

en-verb

computer (third-person singular simple present computers, present participle computering, simple past and past participle computered)

computers (present singular third-person)
computering (participle present)
computered (participle past)
computered (past)


computer

Quant aux ères, ici on compte par l’année de la création, là par olympiade, par la fondation de Rome, par la naissance de Jésus-Christ, par l’époque d’Eusèbe, par celle des Séleucides, celle de Nabonassar, celle des martyrs. Les Turcs ont leur hégire, les Persans leur yezdegerdic. On compute encore par les éres julienne, grégorienne, ibérienne et actienne.

1802, François-René de Chateaubriand, Génie du christianisme:

As the eras, here they compute by the year of the creation, there by olympiads, by the foundation of Rome, by the birth of Christ, by the epoch of Eusebius, by that of Seleucids, of Nabonassar, of the Martyrs. The Turks have their hegira, the Persians their yezdegerdie. The Julian, Gregorian, Iberian and Actian eras, are also employed in computation.

computer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
computant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
computé (participle past)
compute (first-person indicative present singular)
computes (indicative present second-person singular)
compute (indicative present singular third-person)
computons (first-person indicative plural present)
computez (indicative plural present second-person)
computent (indicative plural present third-person)
computais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
computais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
computait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
computions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
computiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
computaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
computai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
computas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
computa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
computâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
computâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
computèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
computerai (first-person future indicative singular)
computeras (future indicative second-person singular)
computera (future indicative singular third-person)
computerons (first-person future indicative plural)
computerez (future indicative plural second-person)
computeront (future indicative plural third-person)
computerais (conditional first-person singular)
computerais (conditional second-person singular)
computerait (conditional singular third-person)
computerions (conditional first-person plural)
computeriez (conditional plural second-person)
computeraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
compute (first-person present singular subjunctive)
computes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
compute (present singular subjunctive third-person)
computions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
computiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
computent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
computasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
computasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
computât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
computassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
computassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
computassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
compute (imperative second-person singular)
computons (first-person imperative plural)
computez (imperative plural second-person)

Borrowed from Latin computāre (“to compute, sum up”). See also the doublets compter and conter.


computer

first-person singular present passive subjunctive of computō


computer

computere (plural)
computer (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
un computer (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
computerul (accusative definite nominative singular)
computere (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
niște computere (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
computerele (accusative definite nominative plural)
computer (dative genitive indefinite singular)
unui computer (dative genitive indefinite singular)
computerului (dative definite genitive singular)
computere (dative genitive indefinite plural)
unor computere (dative genitive indefinite plural)
computerelor (dative definite genitive plural)
computerule (singular vocative)
computerelor (plural vocative)