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English word number comes from Anglo-Norman noumbre
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noumbre (Anglo-Norman)
noumbre (Middle English)
number (English)
(intransitive) To total or count; to amount to.. (transitive) To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items). (Followed by a numeral; used attributively) Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations: No or No., no or no. (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or №). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner.. (countable) A [...]