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  2. Hamartia - Wikipedia

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    Whatever this problematic word may be taken to mean, it has nothing to do with such ideas as fault, vice, guilt, moral deficiency, or the like. Hamartia is a morally neutral non-normative term, derived from the verb hamartanein, meaning 'to miss the mark', 'to fall short of an objective'. And by extension: to reach one destination rather than ...

  3. Perispomenon - Wikipedia

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    In Ancient Greek grammar, a perispomenon (/ p ɛ r ə ˈ s p ɑː m ə ˌ n ɑː n / peh-rə-SPAW-mə-NAWN; Ancient Greek: περισπώμενον perispṓmenon) is a word with a high-low pitch contour on the last syllable, indicated in writing by a tilde diacritic ( ̃) or an inverted breve accent mark ( ̑) in native transcriptions with the Greek alphabet, or by a circumflex accent mark ...

  4. Aristarchian symbols - Wikipedia

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    The hypodiastole, a curved, comma-like mark ⸒, was used to disambiguate certain homonyms and marked the word-break in a sequence of letters that should be understood as two separate words. Its companion mark, the enotikon ( ἐνωτικόν ) ‿ , served to show that a sequence of letters which might otherwise be read as two separate words ...

  5. Diple (textual symbol) - Wikipedia

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    Diple periestigmene (dotted diple) according to the variants in the "Proposal for the Universal Character Set" by Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, 2003. Diple (Ancient Greek: διπλῆ, meaning double, referring to the two lines in the mark >) was a mark used in the margins of ancient Greek manuscripts to draw attention to something in the text.

  6. Sin - Wikipedia

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    According to the classical definition of St. Augustine of Hippo sin is "a word, deed, or desire in opposition to the eternal law of God." [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Thus, sin requires redemption, a metaphor alluding to atonement, in which the death of Jesus is the price that is paid to release the faithful from the bondage of sin. [ 14 ]

  7. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  8. List of Classical Greek phrases - Wikipedia

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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 [24] — a characteristic of ...

  9. List of Greek and Latin roots in English/M - Wikipedia

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    Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples macer-lean: Latin: macer: emaciate, macerate, meager macr-[1]long: Greek: μακρός (makrós), μακρότης (makrótēs) "length"