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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

Definitions

  1. cash

Ancestry of “numerário”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchnumérairecurrency
2Late Latinnumerariusaccountant; arithmetician; keeper of accounts;...
3Latinnumerusnumber; collection, quantity; rank, position
4Proto-Italicnomezos—
5Proto-Indo-Europeannémesos—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European némesos →