Word Origin Summary

Renaissance 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

• Renaissance

  English · borrowed from

• Renessans

  Crimean Tatar · derived from

• renessanse

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• renaissance

  English · borrowed from

• reneszánsz

  Hungarian · borrowed from

• renessanse

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• Renaissance

  Dutch · borrowed from

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