Word Origin Summary

Inspiration 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. inspiratusLatinderived from
2. inspirationemLatinborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• インスピレーション

  Japanese · borrowed from

• yên sĩ phi lí thuần

  Vietnamese · borrowed from

• inspiration

  English · derived from

• 煙士披里純

  Mandarin Chinese · borrowed from

• inspirație

  Romanian · borrowed from

• inspiration

  French · inherited from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root