Word Origin Summary

Fēminīnus 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

• feminen

  Turkish · derived from

• feminizmus

  Hungarian · derived from

• feminine

  English · derived from

• mfeministi

  Swahili · borrowed from

• feminism

  English · derived from

• feminin

  Danish · derived from

• femmenile

  Neapolitan · inherited from

• 페미니즘

  Korean · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root