Etymology of “Πρόσωπον”
Tracing the origin and linguistic journey from Ancient Greek
Source language
Ancient Greek
Ancestry links
1
Descendants
47
Word Origin Summary
Πρόσωπον is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.
Ancestry Chain
Descendants and Related Terms
- prosopometamorphopsia
English · derived from
- prosopopesis
English · derived from
- person
Norwegian Bokmål · derived from
- pessoa
Portuguese · derived from
- prosopografía
Spanish · derived from
- person
Swedish · derived from
- פרצוף
Hebrew · borrowed from
- prosopography
English · derived from
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