Word Origin Summary

Dis- 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

• debat

  Indonesian · derived from

• ディスプレイ

  Japanese · borrowed from

• 𐌳𐌹𐍃-

  Gothic · borrowed from

• disceverare

  Italian · inherited from

• descovèrzar

  Venetian · inherited from

• desarrollar

  Spanish · derived from

• dissever

  English · derived from

• divergere

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

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