Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• distorsione

  Italian · derived from

• distorsion

  French · derived from

• distorsiune

  Romanian · derived from

• distorsiyon

  Turkish · borrowed from

• distorção

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• distortion

  English · borrowed from

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