Where does “vingt-et-unième” come from?

vingt-et-unième (French) comes from French -ième, from Middle French -iesme, from Old French -esme, from Latin -esimus.

vingt-et-unième (French): twenty-first; a twenty-first

Definitions

  1. twenty-first; a twenty-first

Ancestry of “vingt-et-unième”, step by step

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

Words derived from “vingt-et-unième

Every word from Latin -esimusEvery word from French -ièmeEvery word from Middle French -iesme