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Where does “quantia” come from?

quantia (Old Spanish) comes from Old Spanish quanto, from Latin quantus, from Proto-Italic *kʷijentos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷíh₂onts.

quantia (Old Spanish): amount, sum

Definitions

  1. amount, sum

Ancestry of “quantia”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Spanishquantohow much
2Latinquantushow much, how many; how big
3Proto-Italic*kʷijentos—
4Proto-Indo-European*kʷíh₂onts—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *kʷíh₂onts →