numeral

Etymology

From Middle French numeral, from Latin numerālis (“pertaining to a number”), from numerus (“a number”).

noun

1. A symbol that is not a word and represents a number, such as the Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3 and the Roman numerals I, V, X, L.
2. A representation of a number composed of such symbols.
   Compare the numeral for the product with the original decimal numeral. 1966, Robert Lee Morton, Modern Mathematics Through Discovery, page 97
3. (linguistics) A number word, a simple or compound word for a number often having particular grammatical attributes depending on the language.
   We use the term numeral for linguistic expressions and number for meanings. For example, five is a numeral expressing the number "5" - and fifteen hundred and one thousand five hundred are different numerals expressing the same number, "1,500". 2002, Laurie Bauer, Rodney Huddleston, “Lexical word-formation”, in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, page 1715
4. (card games) A card whose rank is a number (usually including the ace as 1).
   Jacks, queens, and kings are not numerals.

adj

1. Of or relating to numbers; numerical.