Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. *h₁su-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from
2. *ehu-Proto-Hellenicinherited from
3. εὖAncient Greekderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• ยูคาลิปตัส

  Thai · borrowed from

• eucaliptus

  Catalan · borrowed from

• ekaliptis

  Moore · borrowed from

• ユーカリ

  Japanese · derived from

• eŭkalipto

  Esperanto · borrowed from

• eucalipt

  Romanian · borrowed from

• 尤加利

  Mandarin Chinese · borrowed from

• eucalyptus

  English · borrowed from

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