"forty" in seven languages
Meaningforty
Spanish
cuarenta
/kwaˈɾenta/
inherited
French
quarante
/kaʁɑ̃t/
inherited
Italian
quaranta
/kwaˈranta/
inherited
Portuguese
quarenta
/kwaˈɾẽtɐ/
inherited
Romanian
patruzeci
/patruˈzetʃʲ/
other source · Romanian compound patru zeci 'four tens'
Catalan
quaranta
/kwəˈɾantə/
inherited
English
forty
/ˈfɔɹti/
Indo-European kin · PIE *kʷetwóres + *déḱm̥ 'ten'
English → ItalianfortyquarantaDistant cognateRelated only through Indo-European, thousands of years back (night ~ noche). But English has relatives: quarantine (from Venetian quaranta giorni, forty days' isolation).What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
QUADRĀGINTĀ‘forty’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Quarantine began in Venice as forty days of isolation for arriving ships.
English relatives: quarantine (from Venetian quaranta giorni, forty days' isolation)
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