Words that come from Latin pulvis

400 words across 60 languages descend from Latin pulvis — including powder, pillow, gunpowder, powdery, pillowed, pillowcase, powdering, pulverize.

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English (81)

German (31)

Italian (27)

Finnish (27)

French (22)

Latin (21)

Swedish (21)

Portuguese (16)

Romanian (12)

Spanish (11)

Middle English (9)

Dutch (8)

Old French (8)

Esperanto (6)

Danish (6)

Norwegian Bokmål (6)

Galician (5)

Irish (5)

Romansch (5)

Norwegian Nynorsk (5)

Vulgar Latin (5)

Polish (4)

Sicilian (3)

Old English (3)

Tok Pisin (3)

Cornish (3)

Aromanian (2)

Albanian (2)

Cebuano (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Pali (2)

Late Latin (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Old High German (2)

Middle High German (2)

Welsh (2)

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Turkish (2)

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Taos (1)

Guinea-Bissau Creole (1)

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