Word Origin Summary

Argilla is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. ἄργιλλοςAncient Greekborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• arcilla

  Spanish · inherited from

• ardiylh

  Gallo · derived from

• arsilya

  Tagalog · borrowed from

• argilliturbation

  English · derived from

• argilla

  Italian · derived from

• argilliferous

  English · derived from

• argila

  Catalan · derived from

• argile

  French · derived from

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