Word Origin Summary

Marginal 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. marginālisMedieval Latinborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• маргинал

  Russian · borrowed from

• marginaliteit

  Dutch · derived from

• marginal

  Romanian · borrowed from

• marginaal

  Dutch · borrowed from

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