Word Origin Summary

Phlegmaticus 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. φλεγματικόςAncient Greekborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• fleumatik

  Middle English · borrowed from

• flegmàtic

  Catalan · derived from

• flegma

  Esperanto · derived from

• flegmatikus

  Hungarian · derived from

• flegmatique

  French · derived from

• fleumatique

  French · derived from

• flegmatický

  Czech · derived from

• flegmatic

  Romanian · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root