Words that come from Latin polus

400 words across 41 languages descend from Latin polus — including Poland, pole, poles, polar, bipolar, Pole, dipole, unipolar.

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English (165)

Italian (67)

Dutch (21)

French (19)

Portuguese (13)

Spanish (13)

German (13)

Polish (10)

Latin (8)

Romanian (8)

Finnish (8)

Danish (5)

Middle French (3)

Irish (3)

Greek (3)

Japanese (3)

Czech (3)

Swedish (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Luxembourgish (2)

Arabic (2)

Ido (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Assamese (2)

Russian (2)

Burmese (2)

Galician (1)

Hungarian (1)

Indonesian (1)

Catalan (1)

Icelandic (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Northern Sami (1)

Serbo-Croatian (1)

Hijazi Arabic (1)

Norman (1)

Old French (1)

Hunsrik (1)

Chinese (1)

Tagalog (1)

Welsh (1)