Word Origin Summary

Πόλεμος 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

1. *pel-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• πόλεμος

  Greek · inherited from

• tulimaicu

  Sicilian · derived from

• polim

  Aromanian · borrowed from

• polemology

  English · derived from

• Ptolemaicus

  Latin · derived from

• ptolemaico

  Spanish · derived from

• Ptolemaic

  English · derived from

• polemisk

  Swedish · derived from

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