Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. βόμβοςAncient Greekborrowed from
2. bombusLatinderived from
3. bombardeMiddle Frenchderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• bombardieren

  German · borrowed from

• bombardemang

  Swedish · derived from

• bombardíroz

  Hungarian · derived from

• bombardować

  Polish · borrowed from

• bombardere

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• bombard

  English · borrowed from

• bombardirati

  Slovene · borrowed from

• bombarda

  Romanian · borrowed from

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