Word Origin Summary

Circumstantia 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

• circumstanță

  Romanian · borrowed from

• circumstantial

  English · derived from

• circunstancia

  Galician · borrowed from

• circunstância

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• circunstancia

  Spanish · borrowed from

• circostanza

  Italian · derived from

• circunstancia

  Asturian · borrowed from

• omstandigheid

  Afrikaans · derived from

What You Can Explore

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