Words that come from Ancient Greek ἄλφα

158 words across 42 languages descend from Ancient Greek ἄλφα — including alpha, alphabet, alphabetical, alphabetically, alphabetic, alphanumeric, alprazolam, alphabetize.

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English (43)

Italian (11)

Finnish (11)

French (8)

Spanish (8)

Portuguese (8)

Catalan (7)

Irish (5)

Serbo-Croatian (4)

Latin (3)

Dutch (3)

German (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Norwegian Nynorsk (3)

Ancient Greek (2)

Galician (2)

Hungarian (2)

Polish (2)

Swedish (2)

Greek (2)

Ukrainian (2)

Yiddish (2)

Turkish (2)

Danish (2)

Indonesian (1)

Russian (1)

Asturian (1)

Czech (1)

Japanese (1)

Korean (1)

Georgian (1)

Tagalog (1)

West Frisian (1)

Cebuano (1)

Thai (1)

Swahili (1)

Hindi (1)

Malay (1)

Romanian (1)

Late Latin (1)

Byzantine Greek (1)

Middle Dutch (1)