Where does “nominal” come from?

nominal (Romanian) comes from French nominal, from Latin nōminālis, from Latin nōmen, from Latin est, from Proto-Indo-European h₁ésti, from Proto-Indo-European h₁es- — to be.

nominal (Romanian): nominal

Definitions

  1. nominal

Ancestry of “nominal”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchnominalnominal
2Latinnōminālisnominal (of a name)
3Latinnōmenname
4Latinestthird-person singular present active indicative...
5Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁éstito be
6Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁es-to be

Words derived from “nominal”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁es- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁ésti →Every word from Latin est →