Where does “numero” come from?

numero (Esperanto) comes from Latin numerus, from Proto-Italic nomezos, from Proto-Indo-European némesos.

numero (Esperanto): number identifying one thing from another ex. ticket number, page number, house number, telephone number; serial number

Definitions

  1. number identifying one thing from another ex. ticket number, page number, house number, telephone number; serial number

Ancestry of “numero”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinnumerusnumber; collection, quantity; rank, position
2Proto-Italicnomezos—
3Proto-Indo-Europeannémesos—

Words derived from “numero”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European némesos →Every word from Proto-Italic nomezos →Every word from Latin numerus →