Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• diferente

  Spanish · borrowed from

• diferan

  Plateau Haitian Creole · derived from

• different

  English · inherited from

• different

  Middle English · derived from

• difféthent

  Norman · derived from

• diferente

  Asturian · derived from

• diferente

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• differentti

  Finnish · derived from

What You Can Explore

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