Word Origin Summary

Voluntārius 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

• volunteer

  English · derived from

• voluntar

  IDO · borrowed from

• volontario

  Italian · derived from

• voluntary

  English · derived from

• volontari

  Occitan · derived from

• volontaire

  French · borrowed from

• Volontär

  German · derived from

• volontär

  Swedish · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root