Word Origin Summary

Compressiō 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

• compression

  English · derived from

• compression

  French · borrowed from

• compressão

  Portuguese · derived from

• kompresjon

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• kompressio

  Finnish · derived from

• compressie

  Dutch · borrowed from

• compresión

  Spanish · derived from

• compression

  French · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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