Word Origin Summary

Civilisation 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

• civilisation

  English · borrowed from

• civilization

  English · borrowed from

• sivilisasjon

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• sivilisasjon

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• civilizáció

  Hungarian · borrowed from

• цивілізація

  Ukrainian · derived from

• civilizacija

  HBS · borrowed from

• sivilizasiya

  AZE · derived from

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