Where does “quintal” come from?
quintal (French) comes from Old French quintal, from Medieval Latin quintale, from Arabic قِنْطَار, from Syriac qanṭīrā, from Greek κεντηνάριον, from Latin centenarium, from Latin centum, from Latin folium.
quintal (French): quintal, a nonstandard metric unit of mass equivalent to exactly 100 kg
Definitions
- quintal, a nonstandard metric unit of mass equivalent to exactly 100 kg
Ancestry of “quintal”, step by step
quintal traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Old French quintal
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | quintal | quintal, French hundredweight, a traditional unit of mass |
| 2 | Medieval Latin | quintale | — |
| 3 | Arabic | قِنْطَار | {{l|en|hundredweight}} |
| 4 | Syriac | qanṭīrā | — |
| 5 | Greek | κεντηνάριον | — |
| 6 | Latin | centenarium | nominative neuter singular of centēnārius;... |
| 7 | Latin | centum | a hundred; 100 |
| 8 | Latin | folium | a leaf; a petal; a sheet or leaf of paper |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | *foljom | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |
via Latin quintale
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | quintale | — |