Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. *sententjāProto-Italicinherited from
2. *sentjentjāProto-Italicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• sentence

  Middle French · inherited from

• szentencia

  Hungarian · borrowed from

• sentensiya

  Tagalog · borrowed from

• sentència

  Catalan · derived from

• sentensi

  Swahili · borrowed from

• sentens

  Swedish · borrowed from

• センテンス

  Japanese · borrowed from

• sentens

  Tok Pisin · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root