cuarenta

/kwaˈɾenta/ · B1 · num

forty

Sounds like quarantine, which comes from Italian quaranta giorni: forty days

Venetian ports made ships wait forty days (quaranta giorni) before landing, and that's where English got quarantine. Spanish cuarenta comes from the same Latin quadraginta. Its root cuatr- (four, as in cuatro) is there too: cuarenta is four tens.

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