Where does “duodecuplo” come from?

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

duodecuplo (Italian): duodecuple

Definitions

  1. duodecuple

Ancestry of “duodecuplo”, step by step

duodecuplo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian decuplo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiandecuplotenfold, decuple; decuple
2Latindecuplustenfold
3Latindecemten; 10
4Latin-nus-an
5Proto-Italic-nosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
6Proto-Indo-European-nósCreates verbal adjectives from roots

via Latin duodecuplus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinduodecuplus
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -nósEvery word from Latin -nusEvery word from Latin decem