Where does “centuriate” come from?
centuriate (English) comes from Latin centuriatus, from Latin centuriō, from Latin centuria, from Latin centum, from Latin folium, from Proto-Italic *foljom, from Proto-Indo-European bʰolh₃yom, from Proto-Indo-European bʰleh₃-.
centuriate (English): divided into hundreds; To divide into hundreds
Definitions
- divided into hundreds; To divide into hundreds
Ancestry of “centuriate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | centuriatus | A division into centuries; The office of a... |
| 2 | Latin | centuriō | to divide into groups of one hundred |
| 3 | Latin | centuria | century, "in its senses as"; any similar... |
| 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- | — |