reckoner C2+ Topic:People & Society US /ˈrɛkənɚ/ UK /ˈrɛkənə/ See IPA manual Meanings 1 noun a person or table used for calculating She consulted a ready reckoner to compute the interest. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · a person or table used for... calculatorcomputercounter Word family Related forms reckonreckoning Etymology AI details From reckon + -er; reckon from Old English gerecenian ('to recount, explain'), of Germanic origin, related to Dutch rekenen and German rechnen. gerecenian Old English View etymology graph -> Topics People & Society Word Formation & Derivatives External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # reckoner **Type:** Word **Level:** C2+ **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈrɛkənɚ/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈrɛkənə/ ## Meanings 1. a person or table used for calculating ## Examples - She consulted a ready reckoner to compute the interest. ## Synonyms - calculator - computer - counter ## Related Forms - reckon - reckoning ## Roots and Affixes - Root: gerecenian ## Etymology From reckon + -er; reckon from Old English gerecenian ('to recount, explain'), of Germanic origin, related to Dutch rekenen and German rechnen. ## AI Etymology Reckoner comes from reckon + -er; reckon from Old English gerecenian ('to recount, explain'), of Germanic origin, related to Dutch rekenen and German rechnen. The historical chain includes Old English gerecenian. The quoted older sense, "to recount, explain," supplies the immediate semantic anchor for reckoner. The formation is best read as suffixal and borrowed: the word reckoner carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a noun, "a person or table used for calculating". Related English forms include reckon and reckoning. The result is a noun whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization. ## Topics - People & Society - Word Formation & Derivatives markdown