Word Origin Summary

Transparent 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. trānspārēnsMedieval Latinborrowed from
2. transLatinderived from
3. *trāntsProto-Italicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• transparent

  Norwegian Nynorsk · borrowed from

• transparan

  Turkish · borrowed from

• transparent

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• transparent

  German · borrowed from

• transparent

  Romanian · borrowed from

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