Word Origin Summary

Cardinālis 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

• cardinal

  English · derived from

• cardinal

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• ukhadinale

  Zulu · borrowed from

• kadinali

  Swahili · borrowed from

• cardinna

  Norman · derived from

• cardenal

  Catalan · derived from

• cardinal

  Romanian · borrowed from

• kardinális

  Hungarian · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root