Word Origin Summary

Ἀστερίσκος 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

• アスタリスク

  Japanese · borrowed from

• asterisco

  Spanish · derived from

• astérisque

  Norman · derived from

• asterisc

  Romanian · borrowed from

• astérisque

  French · derived from

• asterisk

  English · derived from

• asteriscus

  Latin · borrowed from

• asterisc

  Catalan · derived from

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