Where does “quintal” come from?
quintal (English) comes from Anglo-Norman quintal, from Middle French quintal, from Old French quintal, from Medieval Latin quintale, from Arabic قِنْطَار, from Syriac qanṭīrā, from Greek κεντηνάριον, from Latin centenarium.
quintal (English): A measure of weight originally equal to a hundred...
Definitions
- A measure of weight originally equal to a hundred...
Ancestry of “quintal”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anglo-Norman | quintal | quintal |
| 2 | Middle French | quintal | quintal, French hundredweight, a traditional unit of mass |
| 3 | Old French | quintal | quintal, French hundredweight, a traditional unit of mass |
| 4 | Medieval Latin | quintale | — |
| 5 | Arabic | قِنْطَار | {{l|en|hundredweight}} |
| 6 | Syriac | qanṭīrā | — |
| 7 | Greek | κεντηνάριον | — |
| 8 | Latin | centenarium | nominative neuter singular of centēnārius;... |
| 9 | Latin | centum | a hundred; 100 |
| 10 | Latin | folium | a leaf; a petal; a sheet or leaf of paper |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | *foljom | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |