Yep, I looked it up too, and indeed par and impar seem to have been the standard Latin terms for even and odd in the mathematics of the era. See, e.g., Clavius'

Yep, I looked it up too, and indeed par and impar seem to have been the standard Latin terms for even and odd in the mathematics of the era. See, e.g., Clavius's 1574 translation of Euclid's Elements [0]. 0. https://books.google.com/books?id=4Ks7AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=Par+numerus&source=bl&ots=JQZ7Q37ezp&sig=DP_HvkXUeNZ0E5454eGdS8Gfpss&hl=la&sa=X&ei=6QG3VLaLJIG_uATjpYLwCg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Par%20numerus&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=4Ks7AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA8&lpg=PA...