Word Origin Summary

Compliment 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. cumplimientoSpanishderived from
2. complimentoItalianborrowed from
3. complēmentumLatinderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• kompliment

  Norwegian Nynorsk · borrowed from

• konpliman

  Antillean Creole · derived from

• compliment

  Dutch · derived from

• kompliment

  Norwegian Bokmål · borrowed from

• plimön

  Volapük · borrowed from

• kompliment

  Danish · borrowed from

• kompliment

  Hungarian · derived from

• комплімент

  Ukrainian · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root