Word Origin Summary

Rhododendron 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. ῥοδόδενδρονAncient Greekborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• rododendron

  Dutch · borrowed from

• rododendron

  Romanian · borrowed from

• arando

  Portuguese · derived from

• loendro

  Galician · inherited from

• arándano

  Spanish · derived from

• rododendre

  Catalan · borrowed from

• rhododendron

  English · borrowed from

• rhododendron

  French · borrowed from

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