Word Origin Summary

Monstruosus 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

• monstruos

  Romanian · borrowed from

• mostruoso

  Italian · derived from

• monstrueux

  French · derived from

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