Word Origin Summary

Σκληρός is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *(s)kelh₁-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• Scleractinia

  Translingual · derived from

• scleroderma

  English · derived from

• σκληρός

  Greek · inherited from

• sclero-

  Italian · derived from

• sclerotium

  English · derived from

• Scleria

  Translingual · derived from

• scléranthe

  French · borrowed from

• Sclerospongiae

  Translingual · derived from

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