Word Origin Summary

Relātīvus 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

• relatiivinen

  Finnish · derived from

• relatif

  Indonesian · derived from

• relative

  English · derived from

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