Words that come from Ancient Greek “ε”

183 words across 37 languages descend from Ancient Greek ε — including Catherine, idiot, idiosyncratic, idiopathic, idiotic, idiomatic, idiocy, idiosyncrasy.

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English (94)

Ancient Greek (12)

Italian (10)

French (8)

Spanish (5)

Portuguese (4)

Latin (3)

German (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Norwegian Nynorsk (3)

Slovak (2)

Swedish (2)

Russian (2)

Danish (2)

Latvian (2)

Polish (2)

Greek (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Old French (2)

Middle English (2)

Late Latin (2)

Cebuano (1)

Asturian (1)

Catalan (1)

Hungarian (1)

Hawaiian (1)

Esperanto (1)

Hebrew (1)

Translingual (1)

Irish (1)

Ido (1)

Finnish (1)

Norman (1)

Romanian (1)

Dutch (1)

Byzantine Greek (1)

Medieval Latin (1)