Word Origin Summary

Formīca 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

• foumi

  Plateau Haitian Creole · derived from

• furmid

  Volapük · borrowed from

• furnicar

  Aromanian · inherited from

• furnică

  Romanian · inherited from

• Formica

  Translingual · derived from

• hormiguero

  Spanish · inherited from

• formigueiro

  Portuguese · inherited from

• formiga

  Sardinian · inherited from

What You Can Explore

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