Where does “centavo” come from?
centavo (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Portuguese centavo, from Portuguese cento, from Old Portuguese cento, from Latin centum, from Latin folium, from Proto-Italic *foljom, from Proto-Indo-European bʰolh₃yom, from Proto-Indo-European bʰleh₃-.
centavo (Norwegian Bokmål): a centavo
Definitions
- a centavo
Ancestry of “centavo”, step by step
centavo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Portuguese centavo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | centavo | cent |
| 2 | Portuguese | cento | one hundred; hundred |
| 3 | Old Portuguese | cento | — |
| 4 | Latin | centum | a hundred; 100 |
| 5 | Latin | folium | a leaf; a petal; a sheet or leaf of paper |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *foljom | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |