Where does “mensuração” come from?

mensuração (Portuguese) comes from Latin mēnsūrātiō, from Latin mēnsūra, from Latin mētior, from Proto-Indo-European meh₁- — to measure.

mensuração (Portuguese): measurement

Definitions

  1. measurement

Ancestry of “mensuração”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinmēnsūrātiō—
2Latinmēnsūrameasure; a measuring
3Latinmētiorto measure or estimate
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmeh₁-to measure
Every word from Proto-Indo-European meh₁- →Every word from Latin mētior →Every word from Latin mēnsūra →