Word Origin Summary

Corruption 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. corruptionOld Frenchinherited from
2. corruptioLatinborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• คอร์รัปชั่น

  Thai · borrowed from

• korapsiyon

  Cebuano · derived from

• คอร์รัปชัน

  Thai · borrowed from

• corruption

  English · borrowed from

• corupție

  Romanian · borrowed from

• Korruptioun

  Luxembourgish · borrowed from

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