Word Origin Summary

Ἀπόφθεγμα 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

• απόφθεγμα

  Greek · inherited from

• apotegma

  Spanish · derived from

• apothegm

  English · derived from

• Apophthegma

  German · derived from

• apotegma

  Catalan · derived from

• apophthegm

  English · derived from

• apotegma

  Portuguese · derived from

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