Etymology of “Secrétaire”
Tracing the origin and linguistic journey from French
Source language
French
Ancestry links
2
Descendants
4
Word Origin Summary
Secrétaire 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
Descendants and Related Terms
- secretaire
Dutch · derived from
- سكرتير
Arabic · borrowed from
- sekreter
Turkish · borrowed from
- sekretääri
Finnish · derived from
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