Word Origin Summary

Hystericus 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. ὑστερικόςAncient Greekderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• hysteerikko

  Finnish · derived from

• histèria

  Catalan · derived from

• isterico

  Italian · derived from

• hysterisch

  Dutch · derived from

• hisztérikus

  Hungarian · derived from

• 歇斯底里

  Mandarin Chinese · borrowed from

• hysterical

  English · derived from

• hisztéria

  Hungarian · derived from

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