Where does “quingentenus” come from?

quingentenus (Latin) comes from Latin quīngentī, from Latin -nus, from Proto-Italic -nos, from Proto-Indo-European -nós — Creates verbal adjectives from roots.

quingentenus (Latin): five hundred each; five hundred at a time

Definitions

  1. five hundred each; five hundred at a time

Ancestry of “quingentenus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinquīngentīfive hundred; 500
2Latin-nus-an
3Proto-Italic-nosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
4Proto-Indo-European-nósCreates verbal adjectives from roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -nós →Every word from Latin -nus →Every word from Latin quīngentī →
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