Word Origin Summary

Fēmina 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

• faume

  Norman · inherited from

• fanm

  Seychellois Creole · derived from

• femme

  French · inherited from

• femmina

  Italian · inherited from

• fanm

  Plateau Haitian Creole · derived from

• feminicidio

  Galician · derived from

• fimana

  Istriot · inherited from

• feminology

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root