Word Origin Summary

Révolution is attested in French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. revolūtiōLatinborrowed from
2. revolvōLatinderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• revolusjon

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• revolution

  Danish · derived from

• revolusjon

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• revolusi

  MSA · derived from

• Revolutioun

  Luxembourgish · borrowed from

• rewolusie

  Afrikaans · derived from

• revolusi

  Indonesian · derived from

• revoluție

  Romanian · borrowed from

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