Definition:Algorism/Linguistic Note

Linguistic Note on Algorism
During the Renaissance, the origin of the word algorism was uncertain.

According to, various suggestions were made by linguists, for example:
 * from the Greek algiros (meaning painful) and arithmos (meaning number)
 * deriving from King Algor of Castile (whose actual identity has not been able to establish)

but that eventually it was determined to have derived from the name.