Word Origin Summary

Prīncipālis 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

• prinsipal

  Cebuano · borrowed from

• principal

  English · derived from

• principality

  English · derived from

• principal

  Romanian · borrowed from

• prinsipiell

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• prinzipiell

  German · derived from

• principal

  Catalan · derived from

• principaal

  Dutch · derived from

What You Can Explore

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