Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. activitasLatinborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• Aktivität

  German · derived from

• aktivitás

  Hungarian · borrowed from

• aktivite

  Turkish · borrowed from

• activitate

  Romanian · borrowed from

• aktivite

  Plateau Haitian Creole · derived from

• activiteit

  Dutch · borrowed from

• אַקטיוויטעט

  YID · derived from

• aktivitet

  Indonesian · derived from

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