Words that come from Ancient Greek σῆμα

136 words across 16 languages descend from Ancient Greek σῆμα — including semantic, semantics, semiotic, semantically, semiotics, semaphore, seme, polysemy.

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English (95)

Ancient Greek (11)

French (5)

Greek (5)

Spanish (5)

Hebrew (3)

Latin (2)

Danish (2)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Yiddish (1)

Portuguese (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Romanian (1)

Medieval Latin (1)

Byzantine Greek (1)

Words from Ancient Greek σῆμα — 136 descendants | Etymology Explorer