Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• contrabass

  English · borrowed from

• контрабас

  Kazakh · derived from

• kontrabasso

  Finnish · derived from

• contrabasso

  English · borrowed from

• contrabas

  Dutch · borrowed from

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