Word Origin Summary

Competō 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

• competizione

  Italian · derived from

• competición

  Spanish · derived from

• kompetisyon

  Tagalog · borrowed from

• competició

  Catalan · derived from

• competitie

  Dutch · borrowed from

• competition

  English · derived from

• kompetisi

  Indonesian · derived from

• competição

  Portuguese · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root