Word Origin Summary

Ex 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. *eksProto-Italicinherited from
2. *h₁eǵʰsProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• estrullar

  Galician · derived from

• essorer

  French · derived from

• squash

  Finnish · borrowed from

• sgambiâ

  Friulian · derived from

• squash

  Norwegian Bokmål · borrowed from

• expektorar

  IDO · derived from

• scomunicare

  Italian · derived from

• ex

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root