mantisa

• IPA^(key): [ˈmantɪsa]

mantisa f

1. mantissa, significand (that part of a floating-point number or number in scientific notation that contains its significant digits)

   V zápisu 1,45E10 je 1,45 mantisa a 10 exponent. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• exponent

• “mantisa”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “mantisa”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “mantisa”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

• mantissa

Probably from Etruscan.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [manˈtiː.sa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [man̪ˈt̪iː.s̬a]

mantīsa f (genitive mantīsae); first declension

1. addition, makeweight; gain

First-declension noun.

• → English: mantissa

• “mantisa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mantisa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from Latin mantīsa.

• IPA^(key): /manˈtisa/ [mãn̪ˈt̪i.sa]
• Rhymes: -isa
• Syllabification: man‧ti‧sa

mantisa f (plural mantisas)

1. mantissa

• “mantisa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024