Where does “quingentésimo” come from?
quingentésimo (Portuguese) comes from Latin quingentesimus, from Latin quīngentī, from Latin -nus, from Proto-Italic -nos, from Proto-Indo-European -nós — Creates verbal adjectives from roots.
quingentésimo (Portuguese): five hundredth
Definitions
- five hundredth
Ancestry of “quingentésimo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | quingentesimus | five hundredth |
| 2 | Latin | quīngentī | five hundred; 500 |
| 3 | Latin | -nus | -an |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -nos | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -nós | Creates verbal adjectives from roots |