Word Origin Summary

Īnstrūmentum 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

• estrumento

  Old Spanish · inherited from

• instrument

  Dutch · derived from

• instrumentti

  Finnish · derived from

• instrument

  Catalan · derived from

• instrumento

  Tagalog · borrowed from

• instrumento

  Galician · derived from

• instrument

  English · derived from

• instrument

  Zoogocho Zapotec · borrowed from

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