Words that come from Latin “violo”

153 words across 37 languages descend from Latin violo — including violation, violate, violin, inviolable, cello, violinist, inviolate, viola.

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English (33)

Italian (16)

Spanish (14)

Latin (13)

French (7)

Serbo-Croatian (6)

Portuguese (5)

Danish (4)

Irish (4)

Esperanto (4)

Norwegian Bokmål (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

Japanese (3)

Ido (3)

Romanian (3)

German (3)

Middle French (2)

Hungarian (2)

Macedonian (2)

Maltese (2)

Ladin (2)

Catalan (2)

Asturian (1)

Galician (1)

Icelandic (1)

Korean (1)

Polish (1)

Slovene (1)

Georgian (1)

Zulu (1)

Chinese (1)

Thai (1)

Norman (1)

Persian (1)

Faroese (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Tagalog (1)