Word Origin Summary

Ῥοδόδενδρον 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

• rododendron

  Dutch · derived from

• rododendron

  Romanian · borrowed from

• arando

  Portuguese · derived from

• loendro

  Galician · derived from

• arándano

  Spanish · derived from

• rododendre

  Catalan · derived from

• rhododendros

  Latin · borrowed from

• rhododendron

  Latin · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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