Word Origin Summary

Ῥεῦμα 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. *srew-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• reume

  French · borrowed from

• rheumatology

  English · derived from

• ρεύμα

  Greek · derived from

• réamaiteolaíocht

  Irish · derived from

• rheuma

  Latin · borrowed from

• rhume

  French · derived from

• réama

  Irish · derived from

• réamatacht

  Irish · derived from

What You Can Explore

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