Word.ws English Dictionary

pitheco-

pitheco- prefix: ape.

Prefix

pitheco-

  1. ape.

Origin of pitheco-

From Ancient Greek πίθηκος (píthēkos, “ape, monkey”).

Questions about pitheco-

What does pitheco- mean?
Pitheco- means ape.
What part of speech is pitheco-?
Pitheco- is a prefix.

Words near pitheco- in the dictionary

  1. pitheciid
  2. pitheciids
  3. pitheciine
  4. pitheciines
  5. pithecism
  6. pitheco-
  7. pithecoid
  8. pithecoids
  9. pithecological
  10. pithecology
  11. pithecometric

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pitheco- (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pitheco-.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pitheco-. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.