The story
- New Latin · learned borrowing fromCōnfucius
- New Latin · learned borrowing fromCōnfucius
- English todayConfucius
Learned borrowing from New Latin Cōnfucius, from Mandarin 孔夫子 (Kǒng Fūzǐ, honorific title, literally “Master Kong”) + Latin -ius.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.