Where does “numero” come from?

numero (Middle French) comes from Italian numero, from Latin numerus, from Proto-Italic nomezos, from Proto-Indo-European némesos.

Ancestry of “numero”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiannumeronumber; numeral, figure, digit; sketch; short and...
2Latinnumerusnumber; collection, quantity; rank, position
3Proto-Italicnomezos—
4Proto-Indo-Europeannémesos—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European némesos →