Words that come from Latin faex

70 words across 15 languages descend from Latin faex — including fecal, defecate, feculent, fecula, fecally, defecator, paleofecal, nonfecal.

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English (19)

Latin (18)

Esperanto (7)

Italian (6)

French (4)

Romanian (4)

Middle French (2)

Ido (2)

Catalan (2)

Spanish (1)

Portuguese (1)

German (1)

Old Leonese (1)

Asturian (1)

Ancient Greek (1)