Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. ἀρχι-Ancient Greekderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• arquipélago

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• archipelag

  Polish · derived from

• archipelagas

  Lithuanian · derived from

• أرخبيل

  Arabic · derived from

• ארכיפלג

  Hebrew · borrowed from

• artxipelago

  Basque · derived from

• arċipelagu

  Maltese · borrowed from

• arhipelag

  Romanian · derived from

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