Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• circumstanță

  Romanian · borrowed from

• circonstance

  French · inherited from

• omstandigheid

  Afrikaans · derived from

• cirkonstanco

  Esperanto · borrowed from

• circumstance

  English · derived from

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