Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• plebs

  English · borrowed from

• pieve

  Italian · inherited from

• plebicolist

  English · derived from

• plebe

  Romanian · borrowed from

• plebiscite

  English · derived from

• plebe

  English · derived from

• plèbe

  French · borrowed from

• plebs

  Latin · derived from

What You Can Explore

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