Word Origin Summary

Legio 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

• legió

  Catalan · derived from

• legião

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• legionella

  Dutch · borrowed from

• legio

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• legiune

  Romanian · derived from

• legio

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• legionella

  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