Word Origin Summary

Commūnis 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

• kommunal

  Norwegian Bokmål · borrowed from

• കമ്യൂണിസം

  Malayalam · derived from

• común

  Spanish · inherited from

• kommunális

  Hungarian · derived from

• cumin

  Romansch · derived from

• kommunismi

  Finnish · derived from

• comun

  Friulian · inherited from

• commun

  Norman · inherited 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