Where does “dezesseis” come from?

dezesseis (Portuguese) comes from Old Portuguese dez, from Latin decem, from Latin -nus, from Proto-Italic -nos, from Proto-Indo-European -nós — Creates verbal adjectives from roots.

dezesseis (Portuguese): sixteen

Definitions

  1. sixteen

Ancestry of “dezesseis”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Portuguesedezten
2Latindecemten; 10
3Latin-nus-an
4Proto-Italic-nosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-nósCreates verbal adjectives from roots

Words derived from “dezesseis”

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