Words that come from Latin vetera

400 words across 37 languages descend from Latin vetera — including village, villa, Melville, villain, Tocqueville, Melvin, ville, villainy.

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English (133)

Hungarian (117)

Finnish (38)

Italian (20)

French (16)

Latin (10)

Old French (8)

Spanish (7)

Portuguese (7)

Cebuano (4)

Esperanto (3)

Swedish (3)

Dutch (2)

Macedonian (2)

Catalan (2)

Tagalog (2)

Russian (2)

Galician (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Old Portuguese (2)

Norman (2)

Slovene (1)

Icelandic (1)

Turkish (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Japanese (1)

Latvian (1)

Middle French (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Hijazi Arabic (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Occitan (1)

Persian (1)