Word Origin Summary

Prospectus 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

• prospecte

  Catalan · borrowed from

• Prospekt

  German · derived from

• prospectus

  French · borrowed from

• prospekt

  HBS · derived from

• prospekti

  Finnish · borrowed from

• prospek

  Indonesian · derived from

• prospectus

  English · borrowed from

• prospect

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

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