Word Origin Summary

Ὁμός 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. *somHósProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from
2. *homosProto-Hellenicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• homo-

  Latvian · derived from

• homoplasy

  English · derived from

• homophylophilia

  Latin · derived from

• Homoptera

  Translingual · derived from

• homo-

  Galician · derived from

• homotopy

  English · derived from

• הומוסקסואלי

  Hebrew · derived from

• homoseksuel

  Danish · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root