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enumerate

UK/ɪˈnjuː.məˌɹeɪt/US/ɪˈn(j)u.məˌɹeɪt/
verbC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #15,025 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: enumerated, enumerates, enumerating

To enumerate is to list things one by one. Enumerate the objections.

It means naming each rather than summarising, which is what makes it useful in argument. To enumerate a list out loud is how people discover how long it actually is.

Definitions of enumerate

  1. 1verbenumerateTo list things one by one.C1

    “He began to enumerate the faults and stopped at fourteen.”

enumerate is a listing.

Where it comes from

Latin enumerare means to count out, from e plus numerus, a number.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *nem-

  2. Latin

    enumerātus

  3. English, today

    enumerate

r; Latin enumerātus, the perfect passive participle of enumerō, see -ate and -ate. Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

enumerate in the wild

  • Ancient sources seldom distinguish or enumerate the Keres, describing them instead as a vast and host.

    Keres

  • In 1579, the Scottish Parliament passed an act which made individual parishes responsible for enumerating their own poor.

    Scottish poor laws

  • DeviceKit includes the ability to enumerate system devices and send notifications when hardware is added or removed from the computer system.

    DeviceKit

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.