Word Origin Summary

Département 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. departementFrenchborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• departemännta

  Pite Sami · derived from

• departement

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• departemen

  Indonesian · derived from

• департамент

  Kazakh · derived from

• departement

  Danish · borrowed from

• departemento

  Esperanto · borrowed from

• departament

  Romanian · borrowed from

• departamento

  Spanish · borrowed from

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