numbre

English

Noun

numbre (plural numbres)

  1. Obsolete spelling of number
    • 1858 CE, Willam Cantuar, in Archæologia Cantiana; Volume I, page #37:
      Also I advertise you, that one Sher’ Thursday last, I was secretly informyd, that a gret numbre of yomen of the countrey woll shortely com to me, to desier me to be a meane for thaym to the Kinges grace, to have thair loone money agayne.

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman noumbre.

Noun

numbre

  1. Alternative form of nombre

Etymology 2

From Old French nombrer.

Verb

numbre

  1. Alternative form of noumbren

Old French

Noun

numbre m (oblique plural numbres, nominative singular numbres, nominative plural numbre)

  1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of nonbre
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