Words that come from Ancient Greek πεῖρα

100 words across 21 languages descend from Ancient Greek πεῖρα — including empirical, pirate, empirically, empiricism, empiricist, empiric, semiempirical, nonempirical.

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English (36)

Italian (10)

Portuguese (7)

Ancient Greek (6)

French (6)

Spanish (6)

German (5)

Greek (4)

Latin (3)

Dutch (3)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Norman (2)

Old French (2)

Polish (1)

Russian (1)

Hungarian (1)

Danish (1)

Romanian (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Middle French (1)