Word Origin Summary

Διά 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. *dwísProto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• dianetik

  Danish · derived from

• Dianetics

  English · derived from

• diapente

  Latin · derived from

• dianétique

  French · borrowed from

• για

  Greek · inherited from

• diatessaron

  Latin · derived from

• diacodio

  Italian · derived from

• dianetiko

  Esperanto · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root