Word Origin Summary

Σκαριφᾶσθαι 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

• scarify

  English · derived from

• escarificar

  Spanish · derived from

• scarifier

  French · derived from

• scarificare

  Italian · derived from

• scarifica

  Romanian · borrowed from

• escarbar

  Spanish · derived from

What You Can Explore

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