Where does “centesimate” come from?
centesimate (English) comes from Latin centesimatus, from Latin centēsimō, from Latin centum, from Latin folium, from Proto-Italic *foljom, from Proto-Indo-European bʰolh₃yom, from Proto-Indo-European bʰleh₃-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰel-.
centesimate (English): To select one person in every hundred for a...
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- To select one person in every hundred for a...
Ancestry of “centesimate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | centesimatus | |
| 2 | Latin | centēsimō | to centesimate to select one person in every hundred for a punishment |
| 3 | Latin | centum | a hundred; 100 |
| 4 | Latin | folium | a leaf; a petal; a sheet or leaf of paper |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *foljom | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |