Word Origin Summary

Πνεύμων 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

• poulmon

  Middle French · derived from

• neumo-

  Spanish · derived from

• Pneumovirus

  Translingual · derived from

• neumonitis

  Spanish · derived from

• πνεύμονας

  Greek · derived from

• pneumo-

  English · derived from

• pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

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