Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• baptistery

  Middle English · derived from

• baptisterio

  Spanish · borrowed from

• baptistère

  French · borrowed from

• batistério

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• bâptistéthe

  Norman · borrowed from

• baptistry

  English · derived from

• battistero

  Italian · derived from

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