Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. *sterh₃-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• esterno

  Portuguese · derived from

• sterno

  Italian · derived from

• sternum

  Latin · borrowed from

• esterno

  Galician · derived from

• Sternorrhyncha

  Translingual · derived from

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