Quantitated

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To have expressed a certain amount or quality in measurable numeric terms for analysis
2. To have evaluated or categorized something by assigning specific numerical values or quantities
3. To represent or assess something through specific numerical values for comparison or study

Etymology: "Quantitated" is the past tense and past participle of "quantitate," a verb formed by back-formation from "quantitative." Back-formation works in reverse: speakers see an adjective ending in a familiar suffix, strip that suffix off, and treat the remainder as a new verb. Here "quantitative" (relating to quantity, or measurable by amount) was taken as the base, and the shorter "quantitate" was created from it. The adjective itself has a longer lineage. It comes from Latin "quantitas," meaning "how much" or "quantity," which derives from "quantus," meaning "how great." English took the root into scientific and philosophical writing, and the adjective "quantitative" followed that path. The verb "quantitate" then grew from it, most often in statistics, research methods, and laboratory work, where a quality has to be turned into a number before it can be analysed.

Synonyms: measured, assessed, evaluated