Word Origin Summary

Καρδάμωμον 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

• cardamom

  Romanian · borrowed from

• cardamom

  English · derived from

• kardemomme

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• cardamom

  Catalan · derived from

• kardemomme

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• kardamon

  Polish · derived from

• cardamome

  French · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root