Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. philosophiaLatinderived from
2. φιλοσοφίαAncient Greekborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• pilosopiya

  Tagalog · borrowed from

• filozofie

  Romanian · borrowed from

• triết học

  Vietnamese · borrowed from

• cwzyoz

  Yang Zhuang · derived from

• filosofía

  Spanish · borrowed from

• filosofi

  Indonesian · derived from

• philosophie

  French · derived from

• filôzôfia

  Bara Malagasy · derived from

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