endian

== English == === Etymology === From end +‎ -ian (suffix meaning ‘one from, belonging to, like, or relating to’ forming nouns, and meaning ‘from, like, or related to’ forming adjectives), originally in the noun Big-Endian coined by the Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) in his novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726). Swift wrote of an emperor of Lilliput who, after his son cuts his finger when opening an egg at the large end, commands his subjects to open them at the small end; those who rebel by opening their eggs at the large end are called “Big-Endians”. The term was applied in the computing context by the Israeli-American computer scientist Danny Cohen (1937–2019) in 1980. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɛn.dɪ.ən/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɛn.di.ən/ (pin–pen merger) IPA(key): /ˈɪn.di.ən/ Homophone: Indian (pin–pen merger) Hyphenation: end‧i‧an, en‧di‧an === Adjective === endian (not comparable) (computing) Preceded by a qualifying word: of a computer: storing multibyte numbers with the most significant byte at a particular memory address; for example, at the smallest address (big-endian) or the largest address (little-endian). [from 1980] ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === endianness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === Aidenn, Andine, Dannie, Dianne, Nadine, indane, neanid == Old English == === Alternative forms === ændian === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *andijōną (“to end”). Cognate with Old Frisian endia (“to finish”), Old Saxon endiōn (“to come to a stop”), Old High German entōn (“to end”), Old Norse enda (“to end”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈen.di.ɑn/ === Verb === endian (intransitive, transitive) to end late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans (transitive) to finish, complete (transitive) to abolish, destroy (intransitive) to come to an end, cease; to die ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== endung ġeendian ġeendod ġeendodlīċ ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: enden English: end Scots: ende, end