Where does “numéraire” come from?

numéraire (French) comes from Late Latin numerarius, from Latin numerus, from Proto-Italic nomezos, from Proto-Indo-European némesos.

numéraire (French): currency

Definitions

  1. currency

Ancestry of “numéraire”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Late Latinnumerariusaccountant; arithmetician; keeper of accounts;...
2Latinnumerusnumber; collection, quantity; rank, position
3Proto-Italicnomezos—
4Proto-Indo-Europeannémesos—

Words derived from “numéraire”

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