Where does “centage” come from?
Centage derives from Old French cent, from Latin centum meaning "hundred," from Proto-Indo-European ḱm̥tóm, the same root as Latin -icus and Proto-Indo-European -kos and -eh₂tos.
centage (English): Rate by the hundred; percentage
Definitions
- Rate by the hundred; percentage
Ancestry of “centage”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | centum | a hundred; 100 |
| 2 | Latin | folium | a leaf; a petal; a sheet or leaf of paper |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | *foljom | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |