Word Origin Summary

Στερεός 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. *ster-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• cholesterolum

  Latin · derived from

• stereo

  English · derived from

• sztereotípia

  Hungarian · derived from

• stere

  English · derived from

• stereo

  Italian · derived from

• стерадиан

  Kazakh · derived from

• стереотип

  Ukrainian · derived from

• stero

  Italian · derived from

What You Can Explore

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