Word Origin Summary

Steroid is attested in English. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• 스테로이드

  Korean · borrowed from

• stéaróideach

  Irish · derived from

• ステロイド

  Japanese · borrowed from

• stéaróidigineas

  Irish · derived from

• stéaróidigineach

  Irish · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root