Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• caryophyllon

  Latin · borrowed from

• girofle

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• caryophyllus

  Latin · borrowed from

• kariofilo

  Esperanto · derived from

• garofano

  Italian · derived from

• Caryophyllus

  Translingual · derived from

• calomfir

  Romanian · derived from

• girofle

  Catalan · derived from

What You Can Explore

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