Counted

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊntɪd/

Definitions

1. Expresses the action of determining the total number of items or units
2. Indicates that someone has calculated or enumerated a quantity
3. Refers to having added up or reckoned the amount or number of something

Etymology: "Counted" is simply the past tense and past participle of "count", so its history is the history of that verb. The verb arrived in English from Anglo-Norman "conter", which came from Old French "conter", meaning both "add up" and "tell a story". That double sense is telling: the same root gave English both the idea of reckoning a number and the idea of relating events in sequence. The Latin source, "computare", meant "to compute" or "to reckon together", built from "com-" (together) and "putare" (to think, reckon). "Compute" in modern English is a doublet of "count", the two words having split off from the same Latin ancestor through different routes into the language. The sense of "counting" in the sense of enumerating displaced the native Old English verb "tellan", which is the ancestor of modern "tell". So the number-related meaning once belonged to "tell", and the story-telling sense that "count" once carried has largely shifted to "tell" as well.

Synonyms: tallied, enumerated, reckoned, accounted, computed

Antonyms: ignored, overlooked, disregarded, neglected, unnoticed