Word Origin Summary

Contractiō 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

• contracción

  Spanish · borrowed from

• kontraktio

  Finnish · derived from

• kontraksi

  Indonesian · derived from

• contractie

  Dutch · derived from

• contractiaun

  Dalmatian · borrowed from

• contraction

  English · derived from

• contracción

  Galician · borrowed from

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