a. and sb. Math. Obs. [ad. mod.L. zenzicus, zens-, f. zensus, Germanized f. census (1202 in Leonardo of Pisa), transl. Arab. māl possessions, property, as used spec. in mathematics. Cf. It. censo (13th c.).] a. adj. Of a number or root: = SQUARE a. 2, 2 b. b. sb. A square number: = SQUARE sb. 8.
So various compounds denoting higher powers or roots, as Zenzicube (the square of the cube, the sixth power), Zenzicubic a., Zenzicubicube, Zenzizenzic a. and sb., Zenzizenzicube, -cubic a., Zenzizenzizenzic, etc. (Cf. 13th c. It. censo di censo, censo di cubi, censo cubo, etc.)
1557. Recorde, Whetst., H ij b. Squares of Squares … of some men … are named Zenzizenzikes, as square nombers are called Zenzikes. Ibid., H iij. 81 whiche is a Zenzizenzike nomber. Ibid., H iij b. If I name it [sc. 64] to bee a Square of Cubes, or zenzicube: then is … 2. his roote. Ibid., H iv b. Zenzizenzizenzikes, that is squares of squared squares. Ibid., K j. Zenzicubike, or Squared Cube. Ibid., Q iv. When Squares and Cubes be compounde together: as Zenzicubes, Zenzizenzicubes, Zenzicubicubes. … .3. is the Zenzizenzicubike roote of .531441.
1571. Digges, Pantom., Dd j b. Extracte the Zenzike rootes of these numbers.
1674. Jeake, Arith. (1696), 177. A Zenzicube, or a Squared Cube Number made by multiplying the Sursolide into the Root.
