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English word binary comes from Proto-Indo-European *dwó, and later Proto-Indo-European *dwís (In two. Twice, doubly.)

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*dwó (Proto-Indo-European)

*dwís (Proto-Indo-European)

In two. Twice, doubly.

s (Latin)

bini (Latin)

binarius (Late Latin)

binary (English)

(astronomy) A star system consisting of only two stars.. (computing) An executable computer file.. (mathematics, computing, uncountable) The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1. (arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.. (computing) Of data, consisting coded values (e.g. machine code) not interpretable as plain [...]

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