Words that come from Ancient Greek “πήρα”

89 words across 30 languages descend from Ancient Greek πήρα — including pier, pear, peerless, perlite, pernio, pierhead, pearwood, peerlessly.

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English (21)

Latin (10)

French (6)

Spanish (6)

Portuguese (6)

Italian (5)

German (4)

Middle English (3)

Translingual (2)

Ancient Greek (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Old Portuguese (2)

Scots (2)

Medieval Latin (2)

Faroese (1)

Slovak (1)

Galician (1)

Asturian (1)

Chavacano (1)

Tagalog (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Russian (1)

Old Church Slavonic (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Guinea-Bissau Creole (1)

Kabuverdianu (1)

Polish (1)

Middle High German (1)

Old High German (1)