Word Origin Summary

-oide is attested in Spanish. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *wéidosProto-Hellenicinherited from
2. εἶδοςAncient Greekderived from
3. *wéydosProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• -oide

  Interlingua · borrowed from

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