Where does “vuit-cents” come from?
vuit-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.
vuit-cents (Catalan): API m; eight hundred
Definitions
- API m; eight hundred
Ancestry of “vuit-cents”, step by step
vuit-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- | — |