Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. decadentiaLatinborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• dekadencia

  Hungarian · borrowed from

• dekadensi

  Indonesian · derived from

• dekadanse

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• decadence

  English · derived from

• decadență

  Romanian · borrowed from

• decadencia

  Spanish · borrowed from

• decadência

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• Dekadenz

  German · derived from

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