Word Origin Summary

Conductor 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

• konduktor

  Cebuano · derived from

• konduktor

  Crimean Tatar · derived from

• conducteur

  Dutch · derived from

• conducteur

  French · borrowed from

• konduktoro

  Esperanto · derived from

• condutor

  Galician · borrowed from

• Kondukter

  Luxembourgish · derived from

• konduktor

  Tagalog · derived from

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