Where does “denier” come from?

denier (Middle French) comes from Old French denier, from Latin dēnārius, from Latin dēnī, from Latin decem, from Latin -nus, from Proto-Italic -nos, from Proto-Indo-European -nós — Creates verbal adjectives from roots.

denier (Middle French): denier coin

Definitions

  1. denier coin

Ancestry of “denier”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchdenierdenier coin
2Latindēnāriuscontaining or consisting of ten things
3Latindēnī—
4Latindecemten; 10
5Latin-nus-an
6Proto-Italic-nosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
7Proto-Indo-European-nósCreates verbal adjectives from roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -nós →Every word from Latin -nus →Every word from Latin decem →