Where does “ventenario” come from?
ventenario (Italian) comes from Italian -enario, from Italian centenario, from Latin centēnārius, from Latin centenus, from Latin centum, from Latin folium, from Proto-Italic *foljom, from Proto-Indo-European bʰolh₃yom.
ventenario (Italian): twentieth anniversary
Definitions
- twentieth anniversary
Ancestry of “ventenario”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | -enario | Forms adjectives denoting age |
| 2 | Italian | centenario | one hundred years old; centennial; centenarian |
| 3 | Latin | centēnārius | containing a hundred |
| 4 | Latin | centenus | one hundred |
| 5 | Latin | centum | a hundred; 100 |
| 6 | Latin | folium | a leaf; a petal; a sheet or leaf of paper |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *foljom | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |