Where does “centoquaranta” come from?
centoquaranta (Italian) comes from Italian cento, from Latin centum, from Latin folium, from Proto-Italic *foljom, from Proto-Indo-European bʰolh₃yom, from Proto-Indo-European bʰleh₃-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰel-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰōl-.
centoquaranta (Italian): one hundred and forty
Definitions
- one hundred and forty
Ancestry of “centoquaranta”, step by step
centoquaranta traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian cento
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | cento | hundred |
| 2 | Latin | centum | a hundred; 100 |
| 3 | Latin | folium | a leaf; a petal; a sheet or leaf of paper |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | *foljom | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |
via Italian quaranta
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | quaranta | forty |
| 2 | Late Latin | quarranta | — |
| 3 | Latin | quadrāgintā | forty; 40 |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷetwr̥̄ḱomt | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷétwr̥dḱomt | forty |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷetwr̥- | four, fourfold |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷetwóres | four |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷe- | and |