Word Origin Summary

License 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. licentiaLatinderived from
2. licenceFrenchderived from
3. licenceMiddle Englishinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• laisens

  Tok Pisin · derived from

• 라이선스

  Korean · borrowed from

• ilayisensi

  Xhosa · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root