reckoner

C2+ Topic:People & Society

US /ˈrɛkənɚ/ UK /ˈrɛkənə/ See IPA manual

Meanings

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noun
a person or table used for calculating

She consulted a ready reckoner to compute the interest.

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Synonyms

1 noun · a person or table used for... calculator computer counter

Word family

Related forms reckon reckoning

Etymology

From reckon + -er; reckon from Old English gerecenian ('to recount, explain'), of Germanic origin, related to Dutch rekenen and German rechnen.

gerecenian Old English

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# 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

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