Word Origin Summary

Stercus 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. *(s)terǵ-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• esterco

  Galician · inherited from

• stercovorous

  English · derived from

• stercoranist

  English · derived from

• șterc

  Romanian · inherited from

• stercobilin

  English · derived from

• esterco

  Portuguese · inherited from

• sterco

  Italian · inherited from

• stercolith

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root