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Where does “vint-i-cinc” come from?

vint-i-cinc (Catalan) comes from Catalan vint, from Latin vīgintī, from Latin quīnque, from Proto-Italic kʷenkʷe, from Proto-Indo-European pénkʷe — five.

vint-i-cinc (Catalan): twenty-five

Definitions

  1. twenty-five

Ancestry of “vint-i-cinc”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Catalanvinttwenty
2Latinvīgintī—
3Latinquīnque—
4Proto-Italickʷenkʷefive
5Proto-Indo-Europeanpénkʷefive

Words derived from “vint-i-cinc”

  • vint-i-cinquè
Every word from Proto-Indo-European pénkʷe →