English

grossone

From gross + one.

A compound of gross + one

Latin grossus ‘big’

Old French gros ‘swollen’

Middle English gros ‘large’

English gross

Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos ‘single’

Proto-Germanic *ainaz ‘one’

Proto-West Germanic *ain ‘one’

Old English ān ‘one’

Middle English oon

English one

Today it means

noun A proposed form of integer notation that would be able to handle arithmetic of infinities

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / grossone