Where does “quatre-vingtième” come from?

quatre-vingtième (French) comes from French -ième, from Middle French -iesme, from Old French -esme, from Latin -esimus.

quatre-vingtième (French): eightieth

Definitions

  1. eightieth

Ancestry of “quatre-vingtième”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1French-ième-st, -nd, and -th, the suffix denoting an ordinal...
2Middle French-iesmeth
3Old French-esme—
4Latin-esimus—
Every word from Latin -esimus →Every word from French -ième →Every word from Middle French -iesme →