Where does “quinceañera” come from?

quinceañera (English) comes from Spanish quinceañera, from Spanish quince, from Old Spanish quinze, from Latin quindecim, from Latin decem, from Latin -nus, from Proto-Italic -nos, from Proto-Indo-European -nós — Creates verbal adjectives from roots.

quinceañera (English): The fifteenth birthday and particularly the...

Definitions

  1. The fifteenth birthday and particularly the...

Ancestry of “quinceañera”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishquinceañerafemale equivalent of quinceañero:...
2Spanishquincefifteen
3Old Spanishquinzefifteen
4Latinquindecimfifteen; 15
5Latindecemten; 10
6Latin-nus-an
7Proto-Italic-nosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
8Proto-Indo-European-nósCreates verbal adjectives from roots

Words derived from “quinceañera”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -nós →Every word from Latin -nus →Every word from Latin decem →