köken: Inherited from Old French quarante, from Late Latin quarranta, from Vulgar Latin *quadrāntā, from Latin quadrāgintā, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwr̥(d)ḱomt (“four-ten”).
aile: quarantaine, quarante-A, quarantième, se branler comme de l'an quarante de, se ficher comme de l'an quarante de, se foutre comme de l'an quarante de, se moquer comme de l'an quarante de, se soucier comme de l'an quarante de
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic сорокъ (sorokŭ, “a bunch of 40 sable pelts; forty”), displaced четꙑредесѧте (četyredesęte, “forty”) (< Proto-Slavic *četyre desęte (“forty”)). Further etymology is unclear. In the past regarded as borrowed from Byzantine Greek σαράκοντα (sarákonta, “40”), but this etymology is dubious for phonetic and semantic reasons. The older meaning is a bunch of sable pelts.…
köken: Inherited from Middle Persian [Term?] (/čihl/), from Proto-Iranian *čatwārHcát, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čatwārHćát, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷétwr̥dḱomt.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *kïrk (“forty”). Cognate with Azerbaijani qırx, Bashkir ҡырҡ (qırq), Karachay-Balkar къыркъ (qırq), Tatar кырык (qırıq), Turkish kırk, Turkmen kyrk, Uzbek qirq, etc.
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek σαράντα (saránta), from Ancient Greek τεσσαράκοντα (tessarákonta), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwr̥̄ḱomt, from earlier *kʷetwr̥-dḱomt (“four-ten”). The first three letters were mistaken for the article τὲς (tès, “the”, feminine accusative plural) in Medieval times, hence the loss. The memorial service is derived from the belief that Jesus Christ was resurrected for…
köken: From Proto-Indo-European *kʷétwr̥dḱomt (“four-ten”). Cognates include Ancient Greek τετρώκοντα (tetrṓkonta) and Sanskrit चत्वारिंशत् (catvāriṃśát).