Where does “ponderarium” come from?
ponderarium (Latin) comes from Latin pondero, from Latin pondus, from Proto-Italic pondos, from Proto-Indo-European (s)pénd-os, from Proto-Indo-European (s)pend- — to stretch.
ponderarium (Latin): the office in a Roman settlement, usually adjacent to a marketplace, which kept official weights and measures; the place where weighing and measuring took place
Definitions
- the office in a Roman settlement, usually adjacent to a marketplace, which kept official weights and measures; the place where weighing and measuring took place
Ancestry of “ponderarium”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | pondero | I weigh; I ponder, reflect on, weigh up |
| 2 | Latin | pondus | weight; weight of a pound; heaviness, weight of a... |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | pondos | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)pénd-os | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)pend- | to stretch |