Word Origin Summary

Quadrāgintā is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• cuarantain

  Scottish Gaelic · borrowed from

• quadragintillion

  English · borrowed from

• karantini

  Swahili · borrowed from

• quarante

  French · inherited from

• karantina

  Indonesian · derived from

• quaranta

  Occitan · inherited from

• quaranta

  Venetian · inherited from

• kwarenta

  Cebuano · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root