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Where does “sesterzio” come from?

sesterzio (Italian) comes from Latin sēstertius, from Latin sēmis, from Latin tertius, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

sesterzio (Italian): sestertius, sesterce

Definitions

  1. sestertius, sesterce

Ancestry of “sesterzio”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinsēstertius—
2Latinsēmis—
3Latintertiusthird, the ordinal number after secundus and...
4Latintrēs—
5Proto-Italictrēsthree
6Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—
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