Where does “quinze” come from?

quinze (French) comes from Middle French quinze, from Latin quindecim, from Latin decem, from Latin -nus, from Proto-Italic -nos, from Proto-Indo-European -nós — Creates verbal adjectives from roots.

quinze (French): fifteen

Definitions

  1. fifteen

Ancestry of “quinze”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchquinzefifteen
2Latinquindecimfifteen; 15
3Latindecemten; 10
4Latin-nus-an
5Proto-Italic-nosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
6Proto-Indo-European-nósCreates verbal adjectives from roots

Words derived from “quinze”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -nós →Every word from Latin -nus →Every word from Latin decem →