Word Origin Summary

*makrós is attested in Proto-Hellenic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• makro-

  Indonesian · derived from

• makro

  Hungarian · derived from

• Macrotis

  Translingual · derived from

• makro-

  Finnish · derived from

• μακρύς

  Greek · inherited from

• macrocosm

  English · derived from

• macrocarpus

  Latin · derived from

• Macrocystis

  Translingual · 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