endian

Etymology
From, originally in the noun Big-Endian (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.

Adjective

 * 1)  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  or the largest address.

Translations

 * Finnish: tavujärjestystä käyttävä

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to end
 * 2) to finish, complete
 * 3) to abolish, destroy
 * 4) to come to an end, cease; to die