Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. προσῳδίαAncient Greekderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• accent

  English · borrowed from

• accent grave

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• accento

  Italian · derived from

• akcent

  Polish · derived from

• akcentologia

  Polish · derived from

• accent

  Danish · derived from

• accent

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• accent aigu

  Norwegian Bokmål · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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