The story
- Latin · derived frompollicāris“of or related to a thumb”
- Vulgar Latin · derived from*pollicāta
- Portuguese · borrowed frompolegada“inch”
- English todaypolegada
From Portuguese polegada (“inch”), from Vulgar Latin *pollicāta, from Latin pollicāris (“of or related to a thumb”), from pollex (“thumb”) + -āris (“-ary: forming adjectives”). Doublet of pulgada.
Words from the same roots
Vulgar Latin*pollicāta all →
pulgada
Latinpollicāris all →
pulgada
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.