Where does “numéro” come from?
numéro (French) comes from Italian numero, from Latin numerus, from Proto-Italic nomezos, from Proto-Indo-European némesos.
numéro (French): number; phone number
Ancestry of “numéro”, step by step
numéro traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian numero
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | numero | number; numeral, figure, digit; sketch; short and... |
| 2 | Latin | numerus | number; collection, quantity; rank, position |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | nomezos | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | némesos | — |
via Latin numerō
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | numerō | to count, enumerate |
| 2 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |
Words derived from “numéro”