Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• bisor

  Tagalog · derived from

• supervisor

  English · inherited from

• supervizor

  Romanian · borrowed from

• bisor

  Cebuano · derived from

• superbisor

  Cebuano · derived from

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