Words that come from Ancient Greek “σπεῖρα”

54 words across 13 languages descend from Ancient Greek σπεῖρα — including spiral, spirally, leptospirosis, planispiral, spiralbound, leptospira, planispirally, spiralian.

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English (29)

Translingual (12)

Portuguese (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Latin (1)

Middle French (1)

French (1)

Greek (1)

Hungarian (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

New Latin (1)

Ancient Greek (1)

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