Word Origin Summary

Chrīstiānus 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

• Christian

  Danish · derived from

• Kajistiaat

  East Greenlandic · borrowed from

• คริสเตียน

  Thai · borrowed from

• Christian

  Cebuano · derived from

• ခရစ်ယာန်

  Burmese · borrowed from

• Christian

  Norwegian · derived from

• クリスチャン

  Japanese · borrowed from

• Christiaan

  Dutch · derived 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