Words that come from Ancient Greek σελήνη

105 words across 21 languages descend from Ancient Greek σελήνη — including selenium, Selene, selenide, selenate, selenographic, selenious, diselenide, seleniferous.

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English (41)

German (24)

French (9)

Italian (5)

Ancient Greek (4)

Latin (4)

Japanese (2)

Greek (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Translingual (1)

Armenian (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Russian (1)

Turkish (1)

Dutch (1)

Romanian (1)

Malay (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Portuguese (1)

New Latin (1)