Where does “decigrad” come from?

decigrad (Romanian) comes from French décigrade, from French déci-, from Latin decem, from Latin -nus, from Proto-Italic -nos, from Proto-Indo-European -nós — Creates verbal adjectives from roots.

decigrad (Romanian): decigrade

Definitions

  1. decigrade

Ancestry of “decigrad”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchdécigradedecigrade
2Frenchdéci-deci-
3Latindecemten; 10
4Latin-nus-an
5Proto-Italic-nosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
6Proto-Indo-European-nósCreates verbal adjectives from roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -nós →Every word from Latin -nus →Every word from Latin decem →