πολυγαμία
Ancient Greek
noun
Definitions
- polygamy
Etymology
Suffix from Ancient Greek πολῠ́γᾰμος (polygamous, often-married, married to many), πολύς (many, much, a lot of) + Ancient Greek γᾰ́μος (marriage, a wedding, wedlock).
Origin
Ancient Greek
γᾰ́μος
Gloss
marriage, a wedding, wedlock
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Polynesia English
- poly- English
- polygamy English
- polylectic English
- polymer English
- polytocous English
- polygamia Finnish
- polygamia Latin
- polygamus Latin
- polytrichus Latin
- poly- German
- poli- Hungarian
- poligámia Hungarian
- poli- Italian
- poly- Dutch, Flemish
- polygamie Dutch, Flemish
- polyadène French
- polythéisme French
- полиме́р Russian
- poli- Spanish, Castilian
- poligamia Spanish, Castilian
- Πολυδάμας Ancient Greek
- Πολυδεύκης Ancient Greek
- Πολυκράτης Ancient Greek
- Πολυνείκης Ancient Greek
- γάλα Ancient Greek
- γᾰ́μος Ancient Greek
- πλεῖστος Ancient Greek
- πολλάκις Ancient Greek
- πολυμαθής Ancient Greek
- πολυποίκιλος Ancient Greek
- πολύγαλον Ancient Greek
- πολύγλωσσος Ancient Greek
- πολύγονον Ancient Greek
- πολύγωνος Ancient Greek
- πολύμητις Ancient Greek
- πολύς Ancient Greek
- πολύσημος Ancient Greek
- πολύτλας Ancient Greek
- πολῠ́γᾰμος Ancient Greek
- πόρος Ancient Greek
- φαγεῖν Ancient Greek
- *polh₁ús Proto-Indo-European
- poli- Portuguese
- poligamia Portuguese
- poli- Polish
- poly- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Polainéis Irish
- γαμικός Old Norse
- poli- Catalan, Valencian
- policromía Galician