Word Origin Summary

Contrōversia 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

• kontroversi

  Indonesian · derived from

• controversia

  Italian · borrowed from

• controverse

  Dutch · derived from

• kontrovers

  Swedish · derived from

• kontrovers

  Danish · derived from

• kontrobersiya

  Tagalog · derived from

• controversy

  English · derived from

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