Word Origin Summary

Initium 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

• inițiativă

  Romanian · borrowed from

• inicio

  Spanish · borrowed from

• initiativ

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• initiativ

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• inizur

  Dalmatian · inherited from

• inisiatif

  Indonesian · derived from

• initiative

  French · derived from

• inzo

  Galician · inherited 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