Word Origin Summary

Compellere 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

• compulsion

  English · derived from

• compel

  English · derived from

• compellir

  Middle French · borrowed from

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