WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
-num-, root.
- -num- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning "number.'' This meaning is found in such words as: enumerate, innumerable, number, numeral, numerator, numerous, outnumber, supernumerary.
'-num-' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Aaron's rod
- Abbe number
- Ahiezer
- Ahira
- Amalek
- Ammishaddai
- Anakim
- Avogadro's number
- Balaam
- Balak
- Brinell hardness number
- Caleb
- Cutter number
- Edomite
- Eleazar
- Fibonacci numbers
- NUM
- Num.
- abstract number
- abundant number
- accession number
- acid number
- algebraic number
- amicable number
- atomic number
- azimuthal quantum number
- back number
- baryon number
- bdellium
- binary
- call number
- cardinal number
- cetane number
- chromosome number
- complex number
- composite number
- compound number
- concrete number
- conjugate
- conjugate numbers
- conservation of baryon number
- conservation of lepton number
- coordination number
- counting number
- defective number
- deficient number
- denominate number
- direction number
- double magnum
- exonumia