Where does “quindicenne” come from?

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

quindicenne (Italian): fifteen-year-old

Definitions

  1. fifteen-year-old

Ancestry of “quindicenne”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianquindicififteen
2Latinquindecimfifteen; 15
3Latindecemten; 10
4Latin-nus-an
5Proto-Italic-nosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
6Proto-Indo-European-nósCreates verbal adjectives from roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -nós →