Word Origin Summary

Contāminō 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

• contaminar

  Catalan · derived from

• contaminer

  French · borrowed from

• kontaminować

  Polish · derived from

• contamina

  Romanian · borrowed from

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