Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• directivă

  Romanian · borrowed from

• directive

  English · borrowed from

• direktíva

  Hungarian · derived from

• direktiivi

  Finnish · derived from

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