Where does “quatre-cents” come from?
quatre-cents (Catalan) comes from Catalan cents, from Catalan cent, from English cent, from Middle English cent, from Old French cent, from Latin centum, from Latin folium, from Proto-Italic *foljom.
quatre-cents (Catalan): API m; four hundred
Definitions
- API m; four hundred
Ancestry of “quatre-cents”, step by step
quatre-cents traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Catalan cents
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catalan | cents | masculine plural of cent; hundreds |
| 2 | Catalan | cent | hundred; cent |
| 3 | English | cent | A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of... |
| 4 | Middle English | cent | — |
| 5 | Old French | cent | one hundred |
| 6 | Latin | centum | a hundred; 100 |
| 7 | Latin | folium | a leaf; a petal; a sheet or leaf of paper |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *foljom | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |
via Catalan quatre
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catalan | quatre | four; a few; a castell with four castellers per... |
| 2 | Latin | quattŭor | four; 4 |
| 3 | Portuguese | quarto | ordinal form of quatro; fourth; quarter; fourth;... |
| 4 | Old Portuguese | quarto | quarter |
| 5 | Latin | quārtus | fourth |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷeturtos | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷetwóres | four |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷe- | and |