Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• diaphanus

  Latin · derived from

• diafana

  IDO · derived from

• diaphanotype

  English · derived from

• diaphane

  English · derived from

• diaphanous

  English · derived from

• diafano-

  Polish · derived from

• diáfano

  Spanish · derived from

• diafan

  Romanian · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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