Words that come from Ancient Greek “κανών”

128 words across 38 languages descend from Ancient Greek κανών — including cannon, canon, canonical, cannonade, cannonball, canonically, noncanonical, canonry.

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English (52)

Italian (12)

French (11)

Latin (4)

Catalan (3)

German (3)

Spanish (3)

Arabic (2)

Japanese (2)

Classical Syriac (2)

Armenian (2)

Greek (2)

Old Armenian (2)

Hindi (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Norman (2)

Turkish (1)

Dutch (1)

Danish (1)

Ancient Greek (1)

Urdu (1)

Korean (1)

Turkmen (1)

Georgian (1)

Chinese (1)

Old French (1)

Uzbek (1)

Swahili (1)

Persian (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Portuguese (1)

Nauruan (1)

Tajik (1)

Vietnamese (1)

Azerbaijani (1)

Albanian (1)

Old Georgian (1)

Ecclesiastical Latin (1)

Words from Ancient Greek κανών — 128 descendants | Etymology Explorer