Where does “quatre-vingts” come from?
quatre-vingts (French) comes from French quatre, from Old French quatre, from Latin quattŭor, from Portuguese quarto, from Old Portuguese quarto, from Latin quārtus, from Proto-Indo-European kʷeturtos, from Proto-Indo-European kʷetwóres — and.
quatre-vingts (French): eighty, 80
Definitions
- eighty, 80
Ancestry of “quatre-vingts”, step by step
quatre-vingts traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French quatre
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | quatre | four |
| 2 | Old French | quatre | four |
| 3 | Latin | quattŭor | four; 4 |
| 4 | Portuguese | quarto | ordinal form of quatro; fourth; quarter; fourth;... |
| 5 | Old Portuguese | quarto | quarter |
| 6 | Latin | quārtus | fourth |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷeturtos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷetwóres | four |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷe- | and |