Where does “quintale” come from?
quintale (Latin) comes from Arabic قِنْطَار, from Syriac qanṭīrā, from Greek κεντηνάριον, from Latin centenarium, from Latin centum, from Latin folium, from Proto-Italic *foljom, from Proto-Indo-European bʰolh₃yom.
Ancestry of “quintale”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arabic | قِنْطَار | {{l|en|hundredweight}} |
| 2 | Syriac | qanṭīrā | — |
| 3 | Greek | κεντηνάριον | — |
| 4 | Latin | centenarium | nominative neuter singular of centēnārius;... |
| 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- | — |