Word Origin Summary

Ἱερός 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. *iherósProto-Hellenicinherited from
2. *ish₁rosProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• hierarki

  Danish · derived from

• hierographic

  English · derived from

• iero-

  Italian · derived from

• hierography

  English · borrowed from

• Hierosolyma

  Latin · derived from

• hieromonk

  English · derived from

• Hierosolyma

  English · borrowed from

• Jerusalem

  Finnish · derived from

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