Word Origin Summary

Prōstitūtus 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

• prostitut

  Catalan · derived from

• prosti

  Cebuano · derived from

• prostituto

  Spanish · derived from

• prostytutka

  Polish · derived from

• prostituut

  Afrikaans · borrowed from

• prostitute

  English · derived from

• prostituto

  Italian · derived from

• prostitut

  Czech · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root