Meaning of articulus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a point connecting various parts of the body; joint, knot, knuckle.
   declension-2, masculine
2. a limb, member, finger
   declension-2, masculine
3. a short clause; a single word; pronoun, pronominal adjective or article
   declension-2, masculine
4. a member, part, division, point, article
   declension-2, figuratively, masculine
5. a point in time, moment; division of time, space
   declension-2, figuratively, masculine
6. a positive decimal integer consisting of a non-zero digit multiplied by a positive integral power of ten.
   declension-2, masculine

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“1544, Orontius Finaeus, Arithmetica Practica, liber I, cap. 1 https://books.google.com/books?id=4iwPAAAAQAAJ&dq=fractiones&pg=PT169#v=onepage&q=cifra&f=false Articulus vero dicitur numerus, qui ex decem unitatibus, vel binariis, aut ternariis, aliisve decuplatis consurgit numeris: cuiusmodi sunt decem, viginti, triginta, quadraginta, quinquaginta, centum, mille, et similes numeri in naturali serie articulatim distributi.”

A number is called an article, on the other hand, when it is arisen from a single ten, or a double ten, or a triple ten, or other ten-fold numbers: of which are ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, one hundred, one thousand, and similar numbers distributed point by point in natural series.

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