Etymograph

English

euphoria

Euphoria comes from Ancient Greek εὔφορος ‘bearing well’, from φέρω ‘to bear’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰer-1‘to bear, carry’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰéreti1‘to be carrying’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*pʰérō1‘to bear’reconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEφέρω1phérō‘to bear’
  5. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEεὔφορος1eúphoros‘bearing well’
  6. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEεὐφορίᾱ1euphoríā
  7. New Latinc. 1500–1900euphoria1
  8. Englishearliest quotation 2001euphoria1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English euphoria
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2001, Simply: “I live it big, some say it's notorious /…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰer-Wiktionary, English euphoria‘to bear, carry’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰéretiWiktionary, English euphoria‘to be carrying’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*pʰérōWiktionary, English euphoria‘to bear’reconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEφέρωWiktionary, English euphoriaphérō‘to bear’
  5. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEεὔφοροςWiktionary, English euphoriaeúphoros‘bearing well’
  6. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEεὐφορίᾱWiktionary, English euphoriaeuphoríā
  7. New Latinc. 1500–1900euphoriaWiktionary, English euphoria
  8. Englishearliest quotation 2001euphoriaWiktionary, English euphoria. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2001, Simply: “I live it big, some say it's notorious /…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- ‘to bear, carry’

bar, birth, prefer, broad, bread, suffering, burden, differently, barrel, fortune, bearing, barn, fury, baron, breeze, bark, bore, berth, indifferent, broom, barrow, differentiation, embargo, fret, infertility, ferret, deference, infertile, insufferable, furtive, bier, differentially, bahar, proffer, deferential, differentiable, birr, barrette, bairn, burnish, 114 more

through Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti ‘to be carrying’

different, offer, difference, reference, transfer, bear, relative, suffer, translation, relation, relate, extraordinary, differ, referendum, frustration, translate, referee, fertility, strangely, fertile, borne, extravagant, defer, confer, infer, fertilization, frustrate, elated, infra, extraneous, ablation, elation, strangeness, collation, fertilize, dilate, collate, ablative, efferent, oblate, 103 more

through Ancient Greek φέρω ‘to bear’

phosphate, phosphorus, semaphore, dysphoria, phosphine, 23 more

Today it means

noun An excited state of joy; a feeling of intense happiness.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “euphoria”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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