Word Origin Summary

Tarsus 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. τᾰρσόςAncient Greekborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• ทาร์เซียร์

  Thai · borrowed from

• tarsier

  English · derived from

• tarsier

  Translingual · derived from

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