Word Origin Summary

Οἰσοφάγος 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

• esófago

  Portuguese · derived from

• esófago

  Galician · derived from

• esopago

  Tagalog · borrowed from

• oesophagus

  English · derived from

• éasafagas

  Irish · derived from

• esófago

  Spanish · derived from

• esofagus

  Finnish · derived from

• ezofagitida

  Czech · derived from

What You Can Explore

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