Word Origin Summary

Dictionnaire 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. dictiōLatinderived from
2. dictionnaireMiddle Frenchinherited from
3. dictiōnāriumMedieval Latinborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• dictionnary

  English · borrowed from

• dictionaire

  Dutch · borrowed from

• dicționar

  Romanian · borrowed from

• diksyoner

  Seychellois Creole · derived from

• dictsiunar

  Aromanian · borrowed from

• diksioner

  Mauritian Creole · derived from

• diksyonè

  Plateau Haitian Creole · derived from

• Dictionnaire

  Luxembourgish · borrowed from

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