Definizione monolingua

numeral

numeral (plural numerals)

1. A symbol that is not a word and represents a number, such as the Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3 and the Roman numerals I, V, X, L.
2. (linguistics) A word or symbol representing a number.

   The word “fifteen”, the Arabic numeral “15”, and the Roman numeral “XV” are all numerals representing the number fifteen.

   • 2002 — Laurie Bauer & Rodney Huddleston, ""Lexical word-formation"", p1621-1722 in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, p1715

     We use the term numeral for linguistic expressions and number for meanings. For example, five is a numeral expressing the number ""5"" - and fifteen hundred and one thousand five hundred are different numerals expressing the same number, ""1,500"".

numeral

1. numeral

Definizione dizionario numeral

	cifra
	word or symbol representing a number

	numero
	word or symbol representing a number

numerale

	numerico
	Of or pertaining to numbers.

nome dei numeri

Altri significati:

non-word symbol that represents a number

A symbol that is not a word and represents a number, such as the Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3 and the Roman numerals I, V, X, L.

(linguistics) A word or symbol representing a number.