Where does “percentile” come from?

Percentile comes from English percent, from Latin -ilis, from Proto-Italic -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -elis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -lós.

percentile (English): Any of the ninety-nine points that divide an...

Definitions

  1. Any of the ninety-nine points that divide an...

Ancestry of “percentile”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-iletending to, or capable of
2Latin-ilis-ile
3Proto-Italic-elis—
4Proto-Indo-European-elis—
5Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

Words derived from “percentile”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lós →Every word from Latin -ilis →Every word from English -ile →