Word Origin Summary

Spira 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. σπεῖραAncient Greekderived from
2. *sper-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• spiraal

  Dutch · derived from

• spire

  French · derived from

• spiral

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• spiră

  Romanian · borrowed from

• spiricle

  English · derived from

• Spirochaetae

  Translingual · derived from

• spiral

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• Saprospira

  Translingual · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root