Where does “sextusdecimus” come from?

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

sextusdecimus (Latin): sixteenth

Definitions

  1. sixteenth

Ancestry of “sextusdecimus”, step by step

sextusdecimus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin Decimus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinDecimusoriginally used for a tenth-born son
2Latindecemten; 10
3Latin-nus-an
4Proto-Italic-nosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-nósCreates verbal adjectives from roots

via Latin Sextus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinSextusparticularly popular in Gaul. (Occasionally also found as a cognomen.) In particular
2Latinsexsix; 6
3Proto-Italicsekssix
4Proto-Indo-Europeanswéḱssix

Words derived from “sextusdecimus”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -nós →Every word from Latin -nus →Every word from Latin decem →