Word Origin Summary

Commercial 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. commerciālisLatinborrowed from
2. commerciumLatinderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• comercial

  Romanian · borrowed from

• CM

  English · derived from

• commercieel

  Dutch · borrowed from

• コマーシャルメッセージ

  Japanese · borrowed from

• コマーシャル

  Japanese · derived from

• komersiyal

  Cebuano · derived from

• komersil

  Indonesian · derived from

• komersial

  Indonesian · derived from

What You Can Explore

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