Where does “quarantanove” come from?
quarantanove (Italian) comes from Italian quaranta, from Late Latin quarranta, from Latin quadrāgintā, from Proto-Indo-European kʷetwr̥̄ḱomt, from Proto-Indo-European kʷétwr̥dḱomt, from Proto-Indo-European kʷetwr̥-, from Proto-Indo-European kʷetwóres, from Proto-Indo-European kʷe- — and.
quarantanove (Italian): forty-nine
Definitions
- forty-nine
Ancestry of “quarantanove”, step by step
quarantanove traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
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 |
via Italian nove
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | nove | nine; feminine plural of novo |
| 2 | Latin | novem | nine; 9; first-person singular present active... |
| 3 | Latin | novo | I make new, renew, refresh; I alter, change;... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | nowāō | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | néweh₂ti | to renew |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | néwos | new |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | new- | new; to nod, assent to |