Word Origin Summary

Ἱερογλυφικός 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

• hieroglyphicus

  Latin · derived from

• heroglipiko

  Tagalog · borrowed from

• hieroglyf

  Danish · derived from

• hieroglyf

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• jeroglífico

  Spanish · derived from

• hieroglyphic

  English · derived from

• hieroglyf

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• hieroglífico

  Spanish · derived from

What You Can Explore

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