Words that come from Latin “chaos”

282 words across 38 languages descend from Latin chaos — including gas, chaotic, gaseous, gauze, gasification, gauzy, biogas, gaslight.

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English (79)

German (64)

French (21)

Irish (16)

Dutch (15)

Norwegian Bokmål (12)

Norwegian Nynorsk (11)

Romanian (6)

Italian (5)

Spanish (5)

Portuguese (5)

Japanese (4)

Catalan (3)

Greek (3)

Russian (3)

Korean (3)

Icelandic (2)

Swedish (2)

Armenian (2)

Chinese (2)

Thai (2)

Tagalog (1)

Galician (1)

Translingual (1)

Arabic (1)

Faroese (1)

Zulu (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Indonesian (1)

West Frisian (1)

Romansch (1)

Hindi (1)

Serbo-Croatian (1)

Kazakh (1)

Polish (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Late Latin (1)