Word Origin Summary

Ἀρετή 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. *h₂reh₁-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• aretegenic

  English · derived from

• arete

  English · derived from

• aretaic

  English · derived from

• ⲁⲣⲉⲧⲏ

  Coptic · borrowed 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