Word Origin Summary

Παροξυσμός 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

• paroxysm

  English · derived from

• paroxismo

  Spanish · derived from

• παροξυσμός

  Greek · inherited from

• paroxismo

  Portuguese · derived from

• paroxysme

  French · borrowed from

• Paroxysmus

  German · derived from

• paroksyzm

  Polish · derived from

• paroxism

  Romanian · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root