integer

Borrowed from Latin integer (“whole”, literally “untouched”), from in + tangere (“to touch”). Doublet of entire. See tangere, tact. Related to English thack and thwack.

• enPR: ĭn'tĭjər, IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.tɪ.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/

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integer (plural integers)

1. (arithmetic) A number that is not a fraction; an element of the infinite and numerable set {..., -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ...}.
   • 1886, Leopold Kronecker, speech to the Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung:

     God made the integers; all else is the work of man.

• whole number, when understood to include negative numbers and zero.
• integral number

• rational number
  • real number
• Gaussian integer
  • quadratic integer
    • algebraic integer
      • algebraic number

• natural number
• zero

• integer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• integer in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

• integer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• greetin', teering, treeing

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integer (comparative integerder, superlative integerst)

1. honest, trustworthy, having integrity

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integer (strong nominative masculine singular integerer, comparative integrer, superlative am integersten)

1. with integrity, of integrity

• Integrität

• “integer” in Duden online
• “integer” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Proto-Italic *entagros, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥th₂gros, from *teh₂g- (“to touch”) (whence tangō).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.te.ɡer/, [ˈɪn̪t̪ɛɡɛr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.te.d͡ʒer/, [ˈin̪t̪ed͡ʒer]

integer (feminine integra, neuter integrum, comparative integrior, superlative integerrimus); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. complete, whole, intact, uninjured, sound, healthy

   Synonyms: incolumis, validus, sanus, salvus, saluber, sospes, intactus, sollus, innoxius

   Antonyms: aeger, miser, fessus, īnfirmus, languidus

   ab/de/ex integro ― from the start again, from the beginning

   ad integrum ― completely, at all

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “ĭntĕger”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 734
• Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti

• “integer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “integer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• integer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • sound, unimpaired senses: sensus sani, integri, incorrupti
    
  • it is no longer in my power: mihi non est integrum, ut...
    
  • to leave the question open; to refuse to commit oneself: integrum (causam integram) sibi reservare
    
  • to reinstate a person in his right: aliquem in integrum (vid. sect. V. 4, note The proper...) restituere
    
  • an impartial witness: testis incorruptus atque integer
    
  • to send fresh troops to take the place of those wearied with fighting: integros defatigatis summittere
    
  • fresh troops relieve the tired men: integri et recentes defatigatis succedunt
    
  • (ambiguous) to be in the prime of life: integra aetate esse
    
  • (ambiguous) the matter is still undecided; it is an open question: res integra est
    
  • (ambiguous) I have not yet committed myself: res mihi integra est
    
• integer in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

• énnteeger (Eupen)

Borrowed from Latin integer.

integer (comparative integerder, superlative integers, predicative superlative 't integers)

1. friendly
2. complete, whole, intact

Unlike in Dutch, it is not used in the meaning of honest or trustworthy.