Word Origin Summary

Πολῠ́γλωσσος 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

• polyglot

  English · derived from

• polyglotti

  Finnish · derived from

• poliglota

  Polish · derived from

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