Word Origin Summary

Restriction is attested in Middle French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• restricție

  Romanian · borrowed from

• restriksi

  Indonesian · derived from

• restriction

  English · derived from

• restriction

  French · inherited from

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