Word Origin Summary

Dictiō 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

• dictionnaithe

  Norman · derived from

• diccionariu

  Asturian · derived from

• dictionnary

  English · borrowed from

• dizzjunarju

  Maltese · borrowed from

• dicionario

  Galician · derived from

• dicció

  Catalan · derived from

• dizionario

  Italian · derived from

• dictionnaire

  Middle French · derived from

What You Can Explore

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