English

Noun

mathesis ‎(uncountable)

1. (now rare) Mental calculation or discipline; science, especially mathematical learning. [from 15th c.]
   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:

     Forget the Boys, forget your loyalties to your Dead, first of all to Rebekah, for she, they, are but distractions, temporal, flesh, ever attempting to drag the Uranian Devotee back down out of his realm of pure Mathesis, of that which abides.

2. The science of establishing a systematic order for things. (After Foucault.) [from 1970s]
   • 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)

     I’m using 'mathesis' — a universal science of measurement and order […].

Translations

Anagrams

• atheisms

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek μάθησις ‎(máthēsis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /maˈtʰeː.sis/, [maˈtʰeː.sɪs]

Noun

mathēsis f ‎(genitive mathēsis); third declension

(Late Latin)

1. (in general) the action of learning, knowledge, science
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Prudentius to this entry?)
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Sidonius Apollinaris to this entry?)
   1. (in particular) mathematics, mathesis
      • (Can we find and add a quotation of Cassiodorus to this entry?)
      • (Can we find and add a quotation of Fabius Planciades Fulgentius to this entry?)
   2. (in particular) astrology
      • (Can we find and add a quotation of Aelius Spartianus to this entry?)
      • (Can we find and add a quotation of Julius Firmicus Maternus to this entry?)
      • (Can we find and add a quotation of Prudentius to this entry?)

Declension

Third declension, alternative accusative singular in -im, alternative ablative singular in -ī and accusative plural in -īs.

References

• măthēsis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• MATHESIS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “măthēsis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 954/2.