Word Origin Summary

Monumental is attested in French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. monumentumLatinderived from
2. monumentālisLatinborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• monumental

  Norwegian Bokmål · borrowed from

• monumental

  Romanian · borrowed from

• monumental

  Danish · derived from

• monumental

  Norwegian Nynorsk · borrowed from

• monumental

  German · borrowed from

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root