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computus

noun

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin computus. Doublet of conto and count.

  1. borrowed from computus

Definitions

  1. The calculation of the date of Easter in the Christian calendar.

    • An elaborate bundle of techniques called computus therefore developed around Easter calculations. Computus formed the centerpiece of “scientific” education in the monasteries.

  2. A book of tables for calculating dates of astronomical events and moveable feasts.

    • Prognostics have thus been discovered in computi, in volumes on science or medicine, and in miscellanies which present a host of different text genres.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for computus. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA