Word Origin Summary

Correspondēre is attested in Medieval Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• corresponderen

  Dutch · borrowed from

• correspondre

  Middle French · derived from

• corespunde

  Romanian · borrowed from

• correspondre

  French · derived from

• corrispondere

  Italian · borrowed from

• correspond

  English · derived from

• correspondre

  French · borrowed from

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