Words that come from Latin “olō”

400 words across 58 languages descend from Latin olō — including adult, altar, abolition, adulthood, obsolete, delete, deletion, abolitionist.

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English (119)

Latin (83)

Italian (28)

Spanish (17)

French (16)

Portuguese (16)

Esperanto (10)

Catalan (9)

Dutch (9)

Finnish (9)

Polish (7)

Ido (6)

Romanian (6)

Russian (3)

Middle Dutch (3)

Old Dutch (3)

Indonesian (3)

Middle French (2)

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Old Spanish (2)

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Asturian (2)

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Haitian Creole (2)

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Welsh (2)

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Mirandese (1)

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