Where does “chintal” come from?
chintal (Romanian) comes from French quintal, from Old French quintal, from Medieval Latin quintale, from Arabic قِنْطَار, from Syriac qanṭīrā, from Greek κεντηνάριον, from Latin centenarium, from Latin centum.
chintal (Romanian): quintal
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- quintal
Ancestry of “chintal”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | quintal | quintal, a nonstandard metric unit of mass equivalent to exactly 100 kg |
| 2 | Old French | quintal | quintal, French hundredweight, a traditional unit of mass |
| 3 | Medieval Latin | quintale | — |
| 4 | Arabic | قِنْطَار | {{l|en|hundredweight}} |
| 5 | Syriac | qanṭīrā | — |
| 6 | Greek | κεντηνάριον | — |
| 7 | Latin | centenarium | nominative neuter singular of centēnārius;... |
| 8 | Latin | centum | a hundred; 100 |
| 9 | Latin | folium | a leaf; a petal; a sheet or leaf of paper |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | *foljom | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |