Where does “sextodecimo” come from?

sextodecimo (English) comes from Latin sextusdecimus, from Latin Decimus, from Latin decem, from Latin -nus, from Proto-Italic -nos, from Proto-Indo-European -nós — Creates verbal adjectives from roots.

sextodecimo (English): A size of a sheet of paper resulting from folding...

Definitions

  1. A size of a sheet of paper resulting from folding...

Ancestry of “sextodecimo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinsextusdecimussixteenth
2LatinDecimusoriginally used for a tenth-born son
3Latindecemten; 10
4Latin-nus-an
5Proto-Italic-nosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
6Proto-Indo-European-nósCreates verbal adjectives from roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -nós →