Words that come from Latin “laurus”

100 words across 25 languages descend from Latin laurus — including bachelor, laureate, baccalaureate, bach, bachelorhood, bachelorette, laureateship, postbaccalaureate.

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English (16)

Latin (15)

French (12)

Portuguese (12)

Italian (10)

Spanish (4)

Translingual (3)

Polish (3)

Old French (3)

Middle French (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

German (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Medieval Latin (2)

Old Occitan (1)

Albanian (1)

Interlingua (1)

Esperanto (1)

Danish (1)

Dutch (1)

Romanian (1)

Middle English (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)