Word Origin Summary

Labyrinthus 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. λᾰβῠ́ρῐνθοςAncient Greekborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• labyrint

  Swedish · borrowed from

• labirinto

  Galician · derived from

• labirintus

  Hungarian · derived from

• laberíntico

  Spanish · derived from

• labirin

  Indonesian · derived from

• labyrint

  Dutch · derived from

• labyrinth

  English · borrowed from

• labirinto

  Italian · derived from

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