Word Origin Summary

Septentriō 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

• septemtrioun

  Middle English · borrowed from

• septentrion

  Romanian · borrowed from

• septentrion

  French · borrowed from

• septentrion

  English · derived from

• setentrión

  Galician · borrowed from

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