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The article is more widely used in Greek than the word the in English. For example, proper names often take a definite article (e.g. (ὁ) Σωκράτης, ho Sōkrátēs, "Socrates"), as do abstract nouns (e.g. ἡ σοφίᾱ, hē sophíā, "wisdom").
The three past tenses (imperfect, aorist, and pluperfect), in the classical period, are made by adding a prefix ἐ-(e-), called an "augment", on the beginning of the verb. [36] Thus from γράφω (gráphō) "I write" are made: ἔγραφον (égraphon) "I was writing" ἔγραψα (égrapsa) "I wrote" ἐγεγράφη (egegráphē) "I ...
Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples cac-, kak-[1]bad: Greek: κακός (kakós), κάκιστος (kákistos): cachexia ...
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Dionysius Thrax (Ancient Greek: Διονύσιος ὁ Θρᾷξ Dionýsios ho Thrâix, 170–90 BC) was a Greek [1] grammarian and a pupil of Aristarchus of Samothrace.He was long considered to be the author of the earliest grammatical text on the Greek language, one that was used as a standard manual for perhaps some 1,500 years, [2] and which was until recently regarded as the groundwork of ...
The Ancient Greek infinitive is a non-finite verb form, sometimes called a verb mood, with no endings for person or number, but it is (unlike in Modern English) inflected for tense and voice (for a general introduction in the grammatical formation and the morphology of the Ancient Greek infinitive see here and for further information see these tables).
The grammar of Modern Greek, as spoken in present-day Greece and Cyprus, is essentially that of Demotic Greek, but it has also assimilated certain elements of Katharevousa, the archaic, learned variety of Greek imitating Classical Greek forms, which used to be the official language of Greece through much of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Cambridge Greek Lexicon is a dictionary of the Ancient Greek language published by Cambridge University Press in April 2021. First conceived in 1997 by the classicist John Chadwick, the lexicon was compiled by a team of researchers based in the Faculty of Classics in Cambridge consisting of the Hellenist James Diggle (Editor-in-Chief), Bruce Fraser, Patrick James, Oliver Simkin, Anne ...