Words that come from Latin “alga”

57 words across 17 languages descend from Latin alga — including algae, alga, alginate, alginic, macroalga, microalga, algin, algicide.

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English (18)

Italian (5)

German (5)

Latin (4)

Irish (4)

Spanish (4)

French (3)

Portuguese (3)

Old Spanish (2)

Dutch (2)

Catalan (1)

Faroese (1)

Galician (1)

Romanian (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Serbo-Croatian (1)