Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. demonstraciounMiddle Englishinherited from
2. demonstrationemLatinderived from
3. demonstrationFrenchderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• demó

  Hungarian · derived from

• demonstrasi

  Indonesian · borrowed from

• demonstratie

  Dutch · derived from

• デモンストレーション

  Japanese · borrowed from

• demonstrasyon

  Bikol Central · derived from

• demonstrasiyon

  Bikol Central · derived from

What You Can Explore

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