Where does “numerário” come from?
numerário (Portuguese) comes from French numéraire, from Late Latin numerarius, from Latin numerus, from Proto-Italic nomezos, from Proto-Indo-European némesos.
numerário (Portuguese): cash
Ancestry of “numerário”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | numéraire | currency |
| 2 | Late Latin | numerarius | accountant; arithmetician; keeper of accounts;... |
| 3 | Latin | numerus | number; collection, quantity; rank, position |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | nomezos | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | némesos | — |