Where does “diecimiliardi” come from?

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

diecimiliardi (Italian): ten billion

Definitions

  1. ten billion

Ancestry of “diecimiliardi”, step by step

diecimiliardi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian dieci

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiandieciten; masculine plural of dieco
2Latindecemten; 10
3Latin-nus-an
4Proto-Italic-nosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-nósCreates verbal adjectives from roots

via Italian miliardi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianmiliardi—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -nós →Every word from Latin -nus →Every word from Latin decem →