Word Origin Summary

Ἀδελφός 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. *əgʷelpʰósProto-Hellenicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• adelphia

  English · borrowed from

• adelphous

  English · derived from

• Polyadelphia

  Translingual · derived from

• Diadelphia

  Translingual · derived from

• αδέλφι

  Greek · derived from

• Monadelphia

  Translingual · derived from

• adelphophagy

  English · derived from

• adelphotaxon

  English · derived from

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