Word Origin Summary

Ἄλγος 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. *h₂leg-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• αλγολαγνεία

  Greek · inherited from

• -algia

  Italian · derived from

• -algia

  Latin · borrowed from

• -algia

  English · derived from

• -algia

  Spanish · derived from

• algolagnia

  English · derived from

• άλγος

  Greek · inherited from

• -algy

  English · derived from

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