Word Origin Summary

Hippodromos 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. *h₁éḱwosProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from
2. ἵπποςAncient Greekderived from
3. *íkkʷosProto-Hellenicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• hipódromo

  Spanish · borrowed from

• hipodromo

  Cebuano · derived from

• hippodrome

  French · derived from

• hipódromo

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• hipodrom

  Romanian · borrowed from

• ipodromo

  Tagalog · borrowed from

• hippodrome

  English · derived from

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