Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• referensi

  Indonesian · derived from

• referencia

  Hungarian · derived from

• referanse

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• referans

  Plateau Haitian Creole · derived from

• referentie

  Dutch · derived from

• referens

  Swedish · borrowed from

• referanse

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• referință

  Romanian · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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