English [ edit ]

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Etymology [ edit ]

Coined by Robert Recorde (as zenzizenzizenzike) in his 1557 mathematics book The Whetstone of Witte, from the root word zenzic.[1]

Noun [ edit ]

zenzizenzizenzic (plural not attested)

( mathematics , obsolete ) The eighth power of a number. 1866 Charles Knight, The English Cyclopaedia: a new dictionary of Universal Knowledge , page 1045: From this and the word cube, various denominations of powers were formed, as zenzi-cubic for sixth, zenzizenzizenzic for eighth, &c., from which we are now happily delivered.

Charles Knight, , page 1045: For quotations using this term, see Citations:zenzizenzizenzic