Words that come from Latin -a

400 words across 21 languages descend from Latin -a — including enormous, Alan, opera, enormously, homicide, mitochondrial, Alberta, scribe.

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English (267)

Latin (41)

Italian (26)

French (24)

Swedish (8)

Galician (6)

Middle French (5)

Translingual (5)

Catalan (4)

Old Irish (2)

Asturian (2)

Irish (1)

Faroese (1)

Old High German (1)

Armenian (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Russian (1)

Danish (1)

Dutch (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Ancient Greek (1)