Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. ἀνταρκτικόςAncient Greekborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• antarctic

  Romanian · derived from

• antarktinen

  Finnish · derived from

• antarctique

  French · derived from

• antartico

  Italian · derived from

• antártico

  Spanish · borrowed from

• antártico

  Galician · derived from

• Antarctic

  English · derived from

• antártico

  Portuguese · derived from

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