Word Origin Summary

Apocalypsis 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. ἀποκάλυψιςAncient Greekderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• apocalips

  Romanian · derived from

• apocalyps

  Dutch · derived from

• apocalipse

  Portuguese · derived from

• apocalips

  Middle English · borrowed from

• apacailipsis

  Irish · borrowed from

• abcolips

  Irish · borrowed from

• apocalypse

  English · derived from

• apocalipsis

  Spanish · borrowed from

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