Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. *h₁op-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from
2. *h₃ep-ni-sProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from
3. *opnisProto-Italicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• Omnibus

  German · derived from

• omnibuso

  IDO · borrowed from

• donzi

  Sardinian · inherited from

• omna

  IDO · borrowed from

• ogni

  Italian · inherited from

• omniscient

  English · derived from

• omniscient

  French · derived from

• omni-

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root