Also 6–7 in L. form binomium. [ad. mod.L. binōmius, -um, in algebraical use in 16th c., but common in late Latin in the general sense of ‘having two personal names’; see Du Cange. For this, the classical L. word was binōminis: binōmius may be compared with homicīda.] = BINOMIAL sb.
1571. Digges, Pantom., Y ij b. An irrationall called Binomium, reteining proportion to the side, as √z5/4+1/2 vnto 1. Ibid., C c j a. His conteyned Icosaedrons side is an irrationall Binomye. Ibid., C c iij b. By reduction of the former Trinomye to a Binomye.
1670. Newton, in Rigaud, Corr. Sc. Men (1841), II. 298. The extraction of cubic roots out of imaginary binomiums.
