Words that come from Latin “-issa”

133 words across 50 languages descend from Latin -issa — including countess, abbess, prophetess, Clarice, contessa, abbesse, abbatissa, princeps.

See the etymology of -issa itself →

Latin (19)

English (9)

Finnish (8)

French (6)

Italian (6)

Portuguese (6)

Old French (5)

Icelandic (4)

Romanian (4)

Spanish (4)

Danish (3)

Faroese (3)

Swedish (3)

Old Portuguese (3)

Old Norse (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Norwegian Nynorsk (3)

Catalan (2)

Russian (2)

Czech (2)

Proto-Brythonic (2)

Middle English (2)

Ecclesiastical Latin (2)

Medieval Latin (2)

Ottoman Turkish (2)

Old Occitan (1)

Basque (1)

Hiligaynon (1)

Asturian (1)

Albanian (1)

Irish (1)

Cebuano (1)

Tagalog (1)

Middle French (1)

Thai (1)

Old Catalan (1)

Norman (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Old High German (1)

Venetian (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Old Czech (1)

Turkish (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Maltese (1)

Old English (1)

Bourguignon (1)

Galician (1)

Chavacano (1)

Persian (1)

Words from Latin -issa — 133 descendants | Etymology Explorer