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The word rhei (ρέι, cf. rheology) is the Greek word for "to stream"; according to Plato's Cratylus, it is related to the etymology of Rhea. πάντοτε ζητεῖν τὴν ἀλήθειαν pántote zeteῖn tḕn alḗtheian "ever seeking the truth" — Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers [26] — a characteristic of ...
Though many English words derived from Greek through the literary route drop the inflectional endings (tripod, zoology, pentagon) or use Latin endings (papyrus, mausoleum), some preserve the Greek endings: -ον: phenomenon, criterion, neuron, lexicon;-∅: plasma, drama, dilemma, trauma (-ma is derivational, not inflectional);
The English language uses many Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes. These roots are listed alphabetically on three pages: Greek and Latin roots from A to G; Greek and Latin roots from H to O; Greek and Latin roots from P to Z. Some of those used in medicine and medical technology are listed in the List of medical roots, suffixes and ...
The following is an alphabetical list of Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes commonly used in the English language from A to G. See also the lists from H to O and from P to Z . Some of those used in medicine and medical technology are not listed here but instead in the entry for List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes .
Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples pac-peace: Latin: pax, pacis: appease, Pacific, pacify, pay pach-[1]thick: Greek: παχύς (pakhús), πάχος, πάχεος (pákhos, pákheos)
Songs originating from Greece with lyrics in English. Pages in category "English-language Greek songs" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
For example, the word ἄναξ ("(tribal) king, lord, (military) leader"), [1] found in the Iliad, would have originally been ϝάναξ /wánaks/ (and is attested in this form in Mycenaean Greek [2]), and the word οἶνος ("wine"), are sometimes used in the meter where a word starting with a consonant would be expected.
This is a list of letters of the Greek alphabet. The definition of a Greek letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode standard that a has script property of "Greek" and the general category of "Letter". An overview of the distribution of Greek letters is given in Greek script in Unicode.