Word Origin Summary

Compétition 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. competōLatinderived from
2. competitioLatinborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• competitie

  Dutch · borrowed from

• competition

  English · borrowed from

• kompetisi

  Indonesian · derived from

• Kompetitioun

  Luxembourgish · borrowed from

• kompetisie

  Afrikaans · inherited from

• competiție

  Romanian · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root