Word Origin Summary

Ὑστερικός 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

• histeryk

  Polish · derived from

• hysteerikko

  Finnish · derived from

• histèria

  Catalan · derived from

• histèric

  Catalan · derived from

• isterico

  Italian · derived from

• hysterisch

  Dutch · derived from

• isteric

  Romanian · borrowed from

• истерика

  Russian · borrowed 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