Where does “décupler” come from?

décupler (French) comes from French décuple, from Latin decuplus, from Latin decem, from Latin -nus, from Proto-Italic -nos, from Proto-Indo-European -nós — Creates verbal adjectives from roots.

décupler (French): to render or become ten times bigger

Definitions

  1. to render or become ten times bigger

Ancestry of “décupler”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchdécupletenfold; first-person singular present indicative...
2Latindecuplustenfold
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 →Every word from Latin -nus →Every word from Latin decem →