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- Latin · derived frombeneficium“benefit, favor, kindness”
- Late Latin · derived frombeneficiālis“beneficial”
- English todaybeneficial
From Late Latin beneficiālis (“beneficial”), from Latin beneficium (“benefit, favor, kindness”).
Words from the same roots
Latinbeneficium all →
beneficebeneficium
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.