Where does “cotas” come from?

cotas (French) comes from French coter, from Medieval Latin quotare, from Latin quot, from Proto-Italic *kʷot.

cotas (French): second-person singular past historic of coter

Definitions

  1. second-person singular past historic of coter

Ancestry of “cotas”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchcoterto quote, list; to quote the market price of; to...
2Medieval Latinquotareto distinguish by numbers, number chapters
3Latinquothow many; as many
4Proto-Italic*kʷot—
Every word from Proto-Italic *kʷot →Every word from Latin quot →Every word from Medieval Latin quotare →