The story
- Latin · derived frompollicaris“of or related to a thumb”
- Vulgar Latin · derived from*pollicata
- Spanish · borrowed frompulgada
- English todaypulgada
From Spanish pulgada, from Vulgar Latin *pollicata, from Latin pollicaris (“of or related to a thumb”), from pollex (“thumb”) + -āris (“-ary: forming adjectives”). Doublet of polegada.
Words from the same roots
Vulgar Latin*pollicata all →
polegada
Latinpollicaris all →
polegada
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.