Word Origin Summary

Abstinentia 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

• abstanaid

  Irish · derived from

• abstinência

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• abstinence

  French · borrowed from

• astinenza

  Italian · borrowed from

• abstinenssi

  Finnish · derived from

• abstinence

  English · derived from

• abstinens

  Norwegian Bokmål · borrowed from

• abstinence

  Middle French · inherited from

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