Word Origin Summary

Supercilium 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

• sourcil

  French · inherited from

• sobrecejo

  Spanish · inherited from

• cipiglio

  Italian · derived from

• supercilio

  Italian · borrowed from

• sopracciglio

  Italian · derived from

• soucile

  Norman · inherited from

• supercilium

  English · borrowed from

• supercílio

  Portuguese · borrowed from

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