Where does “sesquimille” come from?

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

sesquimille (Latin): 1500, fifteen hundred, one thousand five hundred

Definitions

  1. 1500, fifteen hundred, one thousand five hundred

Ancestry of “sesquimille”, 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
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe →Every word from Latin -que →Every word from Latin sēsqui- →