Where does “vingtaine” come from?
vingtaine (French) comes from French vingt, from Old French vint, from Latin vīgintī, from Latin quīnque, from Proto-Italic kʷenkʷe, from Proto-Indo-European pénkʷe — five.
vingtaine (French): About twenty
Ancestry of “vingtaine”, step by step
Words derived from “vingtaine”