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Labyrinth

2 stages from Greek to English.

Today it means an intricate, maze-like network of paths or passages
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labyrinthos
Greek · ancient
"a maze, especially the Minotaur's maze"
the maze built to contain the mythical Minotaur on Crete
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labyrinth
English · 1400s
"a complex, maze-like structure"
settled as the word for any complex, maze-like structure
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