Word Origin Summary

Prōpensus 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

• propensity

  English · borrowed from

• propenso

  Spanish · derived from

• propense

  English · borrowed from

• propenso

  Portuguese · derived from

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