Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. *-imProto-Italicderived from
2. *izdimProto-Italicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• identificar

  Spanish · derived from

• idem

  French · borrowed from

• idem

  Romanian · borrowed from

• identitat

  Catalan · derived from

• ídem

  Spanish · borrowed from

• id

  Czech · borrowed from

• idem

  English · derived from

• idem sonans

  English · borrowed 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