Word Origin Summary

Locō 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

• locomotion

  English · derived from

• lokomotif

  Turkish · borrowed from

• lokomotiv

  Norwegian Nynorsk · borrowed from

• lokomotivo

  Esperanto · derived from

• locomotief

  Dutch · borrowed from

• locomotif

  French · derived from

• lokomotiv

  Danish · derived from

• logo

  Portuguese · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root