Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. σαρκοφάγοςAncient Greekderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• zerk

  Dutch · derived from

• sarcofaag

  Dutch · derived from

• Sarcophaga

  Translingual · derived from

• Sarkophag

  German · derived from

• sarkofag

  Polish · derived from

• Sarg

  German · derived from

• sarcophagus

  English · borrowed from

• sartego

  Galician · inherited from

What You Can Explore

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