Word Origin Summary

*sḿ̥teros is attested in Proto-Indo-European. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• hetero-

  Indonesian · derived from

• Heteropoda

  Translingual · derived from

• Heterotrichida

  Translingual · derived from

• Heterotremata

  Translingual · derived from

• heterophyllus

  Latin · derived from

• hétérœcie

  French · derived from

• гетеротроф

  Kazakh · derived from

• hetero-

  English · 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