Where does “dieci” come from?

dieci (Italian) comes from Latin decem, from Latin -nus, from Proto-Italic -nos, from Proto-Indo-European -nós — Creates verbal adjectives from roots.

dieci (Italian): ten; masculine plural of dieco

Definitions

  1. ten; masculine plural of dieco

Ancestry of “dieci”, step by step

dieci traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin decem

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

via Romanian diac

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romaniandiacscribe
2Old Church Slavonicдиꙗкъ—

Words derived from “dieci”

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