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
- second-person singular past historic of coter
Ancestry of “cotas”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | coter | to quote, list; to quote the market price of; to... |
| 2 | Medieval Latin | quotare | to distinguish by numbers, number chapters |
| 3 | Latin | quot | how many; as many |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | *kʷot | — |