Word Origin Summary

Symmetria 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. συμμετρίαAncient Greekborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• symetria

  Polish · derived from

• simetría

  Spanish · derived from

• симметрия

  Kazakh · derived from

• симметрия

  Russian · derived from

• simetria

  Catalan · derived from

• symmetria

  Finnish · derived from

• siméadracht

  Irish · derived from

• szimmetria

  Hungarian · derived from

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