Word Origin Summary

Praescriptio 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

• prescrizione

  Italian · borrowed from

• prescrição

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• prescription

  French · borrowed from

• prescription

  English · derived from

• prescription

  Norman · borrowed from

• prescripție

  Romanian · borrowed from

• prescripción

  Spanish · borrowed 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