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Where does “identification” come from?

Identification comes from French identification, derived from Latin identificare, meaning to make identical.

identification (English): The act of identifying, or proving to be the...

Definitions

  1. The act of identifying, or proving to be the...

Ancestry of “identification”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchidentificationidentification
2Latinidentificare—

Words derived from “identification”

  • misidentification
  • disidentification
  • overidentification
  • identificational
  • reidentification
  • nonidentification
  • deidentification
  • photoidentification
  • self-identification
  • nonidentificational
  • identifikációk
  • identifikáció
Every word from Latin identificare →