Where does “pulgada” come from?

pulgada (Tagalog) comes from Spanish pulgada, from Vulgar Latin pollicata, from Latin pollex — thumb; great toe; a unit of distance, equivalent...

pulgada (Tagalog): inch

Definitions

  1. inch

Ancestry of “pulgada”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishpulgadainch
2Vulgar Latinpollicata—
3Latinpollexthumb; great toe; a unit of distance, equivalent...
Every word from Latin pollex →Every word from Vulgar Latin pollicata →Every word from Spanish pulgada →