Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. *h₃ókʷsProto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• -anthropie

  French · derived from

• антропология

  Kazakh · derived from

• антропологія

  Ukrainian · derived from

• антропоцентризм

  Kazakh · derived from

• -anthropy

  English · derived from

• -anthrope

  French · borrowed from

• antropoloog

  Dutch · derived from

• anthropo-

  French · derived from

What You Can Explore

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