Word Origin Summary

Prīvilēgium 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

• privilegio

  Italian · derived from

• privilese

  Indonesian · derived from

• pribilehiyo

  Cebuano · derived from

• privilegio

  Finnish · derived from

• privilege

  English · derived from

• privilegiu

  Romanian · borrowed from

• privilège

  French · borrowed from

• pribilehiyo

  Tagalog · derived from

What You Can Explore

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