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Where does “quadragénaire” come from?

quadragénaire (French) comes from Latin quadragenarius, from Latin quadrāgēnus, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios.

Ancestry of “quadragénaire”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinquadragenariusnumber forty; forty-year-old
2Latinquadrāgēnus—
3Latin-ārius—
4Proto-Italic*-āzios—
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