Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• センチメートル

  Japanese · borrowed from

• centimetru

  Romanian · borrowed from

• sentimita

  Swahili · borrowed from

• sentimetro

  Tagalog · borrowed from

• santimetre

  Turkish · borrowed from

• centimetre

  English · borrowed from

• senci

  Atayal · derived from

• さんち

  Japanese · borrowed 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