Where does “sesquialter” come from?

sesquialter (Latin) comes from Latin sēsqui-, from Latin -que, from Proto-Italic -kʷe, from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe — and; Forms distributives from interrogatives.

sesquialter (Latin): one and a half times

Definitions

  1. one and a half times

Ancestry of “sesquialter”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinsēsqui-1½; 1½ times, increased by 50%
2Latin-queand, a copulative particle affixed to the word it...
3Proto-Italic-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
4Proto-Indo-European-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives

Words derived from “sesquialter”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe →Every word from Latin -que →Every word from Latin sēsqui- →