Words that come from Latin pestis

139 words across 25 languages descend from Latin pestis — including pest, pestilence, pesticide, pesky, pestilent, pestiferous, rinderpest, pesthouse.

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English (43)

Dutch (11)

French (9)

Italian (9)

German (9)

Latin (7)

Spanish (6)

Cebuano (5)

Swedish (5)

Romanian (5)

Hungarian (4)

Norwegian Bokmål (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

Portuguese (4)

Catalan (3)

Luxembourgish (2)

Middle French (1)

Japanese (1)

Danish (1)

Old French (1)

Indonesian (1)

Polish (1)

Czech (1)

Turkish (1)

Khmer (1)

Words from Latin pestis — 139 descendants | Etymology Explorer