Words that come from Ancient Greek “στρέφω”
178 words across 30 languages descend from Ancient Greek στρέφω — including catastrophe, catastrophic, strap, bootstrap, strapping, streptococcal, strophe, streptomycin.
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English (83)
- catastrophe
- catastrophic
- strap
- bootstrap
- strapping
- streptococcal
- strophe
- streptomycin
- streptococcus
- strapless
- catastrophically
- streptokinase
- strophic
- strappy
- catastrophism
- jockstrap
- blackstrap
- chinstrap
- strapwork
- backstrap
- poststreptococcal
- unstrap
- strappado
- catastrophist
- understrapper
- strapline
- catastrophize
- eucatastrophe
- antistreptolysin
- streptolysin
- strapper
- boustrophedon
- strapdown
- straplike
- noncatastrophic
- antistreptococcal
- bootstrapper
- dihydrostreptomycin
- anastrophe
- watchstrap
- eucatastrophic
- stremma
- catastrophization
- magnetostrophic
- astrophic
- straphanger
- boustrophedonic
- neckstrap
- nonstreptococcal
- postcatastrophic
- ecocatastrophe
- neocatastrophism
- understrap
- strappingly
- catastrophal
- monostrophic
- streptose
- strapwort
- strophiole
- catastrophizer
- wriststrap
- boustrophedonically
- strope
- uncatastrophic
- straphang
- strophiolar
- chokestrap
- monostrophe
- strapple
- strepto-
- strophiolate
- streptophyte
- lip-strap
- streptovaricin
- megacatastrophic
- streptobacterium
- bootstrappable
- jockey shorts
- strappies
- heterostrophy
- -strophy
- eucatastrophically
- strophium