Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• fleumatik

  Middle English · borrowed from

• flegmàtic

  Catalan · derived from

• flegma

  Esperanto · derived from

• flegmatikus

  Hungarian · derived from

• flemático

  Spanish · derived from

• phlegmaticus

  Latin · borrowed from

• flegmatique

  French · derived from

• fleumatique

  French · derived from

What You Can Explore

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