Word Origin Summary

Appendix 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

• appendice

  French · borrowed from

• appendice

  Italian · derived from

• appendiks

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• aipindic

  Irish · derived from

• apendicular

  Portuguese · derived from

• apèndix

  Catalan · derived from

• apendiks

  Cebuano · derived from

• aipeandaig

  Scottish Gaelic · 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