coōrdināta

Meaning

1. New Latincoordinate
   Duo coordinatarum systemata rectangularia esse supponuntur, quae initio gaudent communi; vocentur alterius coordinatae x,y,z; alterius p,q,r;Two systems of coordinates, which enjoy a common beginning [origin], are supposed to be rectangular; the coordinates of one may be called x,y,z; the other p,q,r;1827, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, “Euleri formulae de transformatione coordinatarum”, in Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelle’s Journal), volume 1827, number 2, →DOI, pages 188–189:
   Supponamus, superficiem nostram curvam explicari posse in aliam superficiem, curvam seu planam, ita ut cuivis puncto prioris superficiei per coordinatas x, y, z determinato respondeat punctum determinatum superficiei posterioris, cuius coordinatae sint x′, y′, z′.We may suppose that our curved surface can be developed on another surface, curved or plane, so that to whichever point of the former surface, determined by the coordinates x, y, z, corresponds a determined point of the latter surface, whose coordinates are x′, y′, z′.1828, Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, Disquisitiones Generales Circa Superficies Curvas, archived from the original on 31 May 2016, page 24:

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Origins

From Medieval Latin coōrdinātus, perfect participle of coōrdinō (“arrange together”), from con- (“together”) + ōrdinō (“arrange”).