Word Origin Summary

Prōvincia 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

• provincija

  Lithuanian · derived from

• provincie

  Romanian · borrowed from

• Provence

  English · borrowed from

• 普羅旺斯

  Mandarin Chinese · borrowed from

• provincia

  Spanish · derived from

• província

  Occitan · derived from

• probinsiya

  Tagalog · borrowed from

• Provence

  Swedish · derived from

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