Etymograph

English

noncuple

Noncuple comes from Latin noncuplus ‘nine times larger than’, from nōnus ‘ninth’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ ‘nine’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁néwn̥1‘nine’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁newn̥(n)ós1reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*nowenos1‘ninth’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnōnus2‘ninth’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnoncuplus2‘nine times larger than’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1570noncuple2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin nonus
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English noncuple
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1570, Henry Billingsley tr. Comte de Candale i: “To proue that a trilater equilater Pyramis, is noncuple…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁néwn̥Wiktionary, Latin nonus‘nine’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁newn̥(n)ósWiktionary, Latin nonusreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*nowenosWiktionary, Latin nonus‘ninth’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnōnusWiktionary, English noncuple‘ninth’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnoncuplusWiktionary, English noncuple‘nine times larger than’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1570noncupleWiktionary, English noncuple. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1570, Henry Billingsley tr. Comte de Candale i: “To proue that a trilater equilater Pyramis, is noncuple…”

first attested First attested in adjectival use in 1557, in nominal use in 1636, and in verbal use in 1674; from the post-Classical Latin noncuplus (“nine times larger than”), from the Classical Latin nōnus (“ninth”) + -cuplus; compare nonuple (as stated in Wiktionary’s etymology)

The story

First attested in adjectival use in 1557, in nominal use in 1636, and in verbal use in 1674; from the post-Classical Latin noncuplus (‘nine times larger than’), from the Classical Latin nōnus (‘ninth’) + -cuplus; compare nonuple.

Full etymology on Wiktionary

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ ‘nine’

nine, ninth, 10 more

through Latin nōnus ‘ninth’

noon, 7 more

Today it means

adj Nine-to-one; (in 1729 quot.) imprecisely, with any number of aliquot parts over.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “noncuple”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin nonus. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ / noncuple

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