Words that come from Ancient Greek “πόλος”

400 words across 31 languages descend from Ancient Greek πόλος — including Poland, pole, poles, polar, bipolar, Pole, dipole, unipolar.

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English (137)

Serbo-Croatian (122)

Italian (60)

French (18)

Dutch (16)

Latin (6)

Danish (4)

Russian (3)

Greek (3)

Polish (3)

Czech (3)

Portuguese (3)

Middle French (2)

Arabic (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Galician (1)

Irish (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Japanese (1)

Hungarian (1)

Indonesian (1)

Swedish (1)

Catalan (1)

Icelandic (1)

Slovene (1)

Romanian (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Ido (1)

Spanish (1)

German (1)

Northern Sami (1)