Word Origin Summary

Competens 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

• kompetent

  Luxembourgish · borrowed from

• competent

  English · derived from

• kompetentny

  Polish · derived from

• competente

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• kompetenta

  IDO · borrowed from

• kompetent

  Norwegian Bokmål · borrowed from

• kompetent

  Norwegian Nynorsk · borrowed from

• kompetenta

  Esperanto · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root