Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. col-Latinderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• kolaborator

  Indonesian · borrowed from

• collaborateur

  Dutch · borrowed from

• colaborator

  Romanian · borrowed from

• kollaboráns

  Hungarian · borrowed from

• kolaborant

  Czech · derived from

• collaborateur

  Norman · borrowed from

• collaborator

  English · borrowed from

• kollaboratör

  Swedish · borrowed from

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