Where does “centenarianism” come from?
centenarianism (English) comes from English centenarian, from Latin centēnārius, from Latin centenus, from Latin centum, from Latin folium, from Proto-Italic *foljom, from Proto-Indo-European bʰolh₃yom, from Proto-Indo-European bʰleh₃-.
centenarianism (English): The state of being at least 100 years of age
Definitions
- The state of being at least 100 years of age
Ancestry of “centenarianism”, step by step
centenarianism traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English centenarian
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | centenarian | Being at least 100 years old. Beyond one's tenth... |
| 2 | Latin | centēnārius | containing a hundred |
| 3 | Latin | centenus | one hundred |
| 4 | Latin | centum | a hundred; 100 |
| 5 | Latin | folium | a leaf; a petal; a sheet or leaf of paper |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *foljom | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |
via English ism
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ism | An ideology, system of thought, or practice that... |
| 2 | English | -ism | Used to form nouns of action or process or result... |
| 3 | Latin | -ismus | -ism |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | -ισμός | Forms abstract nouns |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | -μός | Forms abstract nouns |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -mós | Creates action/result nouns from verb stems |