Word Origin Summary

Los Angeles is attested in English. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. puebloOld Spanishinherited from
2. *poplosProto-Italicinherited from
3. puebloSpanishborrowed from
4. populumLatininherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• لوس أنجلوس

  Arabic · borrowed from

• Lốt

  Vietnamese · borrowed from

• 羅省枝利

  Mandarin Chinese · borrowed from

• ロサンゼルス

  Japanese · borrowed from

• Лос Анџелес

  Macedonian · borrowed from

• 로스앤젤레스

  Korean · borrowed from

• 洛杉磯

  Mandarin Chinese · borrowed from

• لوس أنجلس

  Arabic · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root