Words that come from Latin “vitulus”

188 words across 47 languages descend from Latin vitulus — including violin, veal, cello, violinist, viola, viol, violoncello, vitelline.

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English (41)

Italian (15)

Spanish (14)

Portuguese (11)

French (10)

Irish (9)

Romansch (9)

Latin (6)

Serbo-Croatian (6)

Danish (4)

Esperanto (4)

Ido (4)

Norwegian Bokmål (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

Romanian (4)

Japanese (3)

German (3)

Dutch (2)

Hungarian (2)

Macedonian (2)

Aromanian (2)

Ligurian (2)

Old French (2)

Late Latin (2)

Old Occitan (1)

Icelandic (1)

Korean (1)

Ancient Greek (1)

Polish (1)

Slovene (1)

Venetian (1)

Georgian (1)

Friulian (1)

Zulu (1)

Chinese (1)

Ladino (1)

Thai (1)

Vietnamese (1)

Persian (1)

Faroese (1)

Norman (1)

Middle English (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Middle French (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)

Tagalog (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)