Where does “ℚ” come from?
ℚ (Translingual) comes from Italian quoziente, from Latin quotiens, from Latin quoties, from Latin quot, from Proto-Italic *kʷot.
Ancestry of “ℚ”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | quoziente | quotient; rate |
| 2 | Latin | quotiens | how often?; as often as; whenever |
| 3 | Latin | quoties | Alternative form of quotiēns |
| 4 | Latin | quot | how many; as many |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *kʷot | — |