Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• bachelor

  Danish · borrowed from

• bachelor

  English · derived from

• bakalaureat

  Indonesian · derived from

• bachillerato

  Spanish · derived from

• baccalaureus

  Latin · derived from

• baccalaureate

  English · derived from

• bachelor

  French · borrowed from

• baccalaureat

  English · derived 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