Where does “diezmo” come from?

diezmo (Spanish) comes from Old Spanish diezmo, from Latin Decimus, from Latin decem, from Latin -nus, from Proto-Italic -nos, from Proto-Indo-European -nós — Creates verbal adjectives from roots.

diezmo (Spanish): tithe; tenth

Definitions

  1. tithe; tenth

Ancestry of “diezmo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Spanishdiezmotithe
2LatinDecimusoriginally used for a tenth-born son
3Latindecemten; 10
4Latin-nus-an
5Proto-Italic-nosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
6Proto-Indo-European-nósCreates verbal adjectives from roots

Words derived from “diezmo”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -nós →Every word from Latin -nus →Every word from Latin decem →