Word Origin Summary

Vēlōcitās 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

• velocity

  English · derived from

• velocidad

  Spanish · derived from

• velocitate

  Romanian · borrowed from

• velocitat

  Catalan · derived from

• velocidade

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• velocidade

  Galician · derived from

• belosidad

  Tagalog · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root